I did, along with so many others who were OBJECTIVE about BB, ( not the kooks who were convinced the BB handset would "come back"..sheesh), that their strength was software NOT hardware.  Mr. Chen, unshackled by its brilliant but stubborn founders, recognized this face VERY early on.  Good on him for saving the company.......by being bold and transitioning to software.  BB's dominant hardware  days are so long gone...and its future and existence is its software.  It will likely never be remotely the market cap it was a decade ago...but it can trundle along nicely as a software supplier.  Mr. Chen deserves the huge amount of compensation he has received.