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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Good post Don, you are right. It will take someone using something outside 
> of the system to make a break-through.

There are a plethora of fine new inventions each year. Most of us neither 
hear of nor see them. There is a huge distance between an excellent idea 
and marketplace acceptance. Unless consumers learn about and accept 
something new it has no commercial life and it lies on a shelf. Wright came 
up with a great design in his Usonian houses. Few were built. Many years 
later it took Eichler's enthusiasm, money and marketing to cause the design 
to gain acceptance. Most people make no connection between FLW and the 
design although Wright was not only inside the system, he, to a substantial 
degree, was the system.