rude, but right. A friend of mine is helping to run the turkey/middle east operations of the samwers, and he is one of the smartest guys I know and totally deserves respect for execution.

You're wrong and rude; They are contributing quite a lot, they are providing services to markets that US providers neglect.

He might be rude, but he's correct about the hypocrisy. We HNers do subscribe to the belief that ideas don't mean much at all on their own, and it's all about the execution. These guys are amazing at execution, so it follows that we should respect them for it.

However, I think this is generally a community of craftsmen, so we see ourselves on the other side of the equation... our idea being ripped off by the Samwers' operation.