[js1138]

There really isn't any amount of money that could compensate for the licensing of a product like this, or salve the conscience of an inventor who denied it to the world. Nor is there any reasonable amount of money that could compensate a corporation that owned the product and refused to make it.

On the other hand, my city is home to a guy who bilked major corporations like Cisco out of millions of dollars to develop high speed transmission over telephone lines. He bamboozled a number of industry giants with sleight of hand demos.

[SunkenCiv]

Perhaps it is real, and is being manufactured, but for classified applications.

Perhaps in China.

And I think you're giving way too much credence to the power of conscience.