I don't think Cisco's problems are a lack of engineers. If it is, they can always pay them more, or train their managers to be good leaders. I agree - every t

I don't think Cisco's problems are a lack of engineers. If it is, they can always pay them more, or train their managers to be good leaders. I agree - every time I hear, "People aren't going to work in X?" I wonder if there is a systemic imbalance, or something else at work. If consumers want to pay for apps, who are we as central planners to say otherwise? Maybe we shouldn't subsidize these things, but let the market decide. You could argue we should be funding basic research, but that's not routers.