They have the R&D expertise, they have the marketing expertise, they've got the manufacturing expertise. Tell me again why they need $50 mill a year exectutives to tell them what to do? That'll continue as long as those executives keep turning over their intellectual property in trade for better quarterly numbers. Once the intellectual vault is looted, watch for that arrangement to change rather abruptly.
The executives had better watch out --- they too can easily be replaced.