> (think of POET as an industrial flour mill, not a corner-store bake shop)

or maybe like Monsanto*

POET has the seeds, with the Fabless chip designers being the farmers.

GLAL,

R.

* - ewww, Monsanto. analogy sorta fits, especially since they have some of the heaviest-hitting patent-protection lawyers on the freakin' planet. but boy, even just typing that makes me feel contaminated. I have to go take a shower now. LOL.