[What'saCobra?]

With respect to both parties:

It is more than regrettable for SAAC to use the Burke quote in this context. It is a sign of an amateurish lack of negotiating skills. It hands CS all he needs to reach into the ever-deep coffers of FORD skills and funds to get all the legal and financial assistance he needs to "win".

It also makes wise men blanche when trying to decide which party is the more wise, honest or fair. SAAC ought not descend to the mud and name-slinging that will naturally flow from this disagreement if left to hot-heads.

Eventually, the parties must enjoin each other and find mutual satisfaction, or mutual suffering. It will happen. Money will flow from FORD to SAAC ownership to make this happen positively. It will not be larger if insult is added to the “injury”; it will likely be smaller.

The purchase price might hover between 3 and 5 million USD. Perhaps more, if insult isn’t a deductible.

It isn’t sensible to tempt FORD to spend one or two million on legal fees, by driving them to the pisoir. Recall that FORD’s lawyers are perhaps already on retainer. BIG retainer.

Let the “other” drive their audience away with ignorant slams and incompetent internal communications. Keep it clean. Never pick up a tar-baby.

It’s more profitable. It is also more honorable.

When we claim the other party is “evil” for perhaps not following the terms of a verbal or less than perfectly documented long past agreement about “materials”, precisely the same as we have preferred to remember it, honor is implied as valuable.

Resolve to act accordingly and with more common sense.

Perhaps SAAC have not spent 5 or more years in very expensive litigation during which it consumed much of their waking hours, just to lose due to simple and initial error.