There is nothing abnormal here. Before signing a contract, they'd better certify that what DGT had was legit. Or just don't sign. You said even a plumber could do that. So, before signing they were naive and just got slightly below the level of expertise of a plubler after the signing and just a bit above after the demo. This doesn't make sense.
And you know this is absurd, because in the last paragraph you wrote "The "gentleman's agreement" was batty. That was a very stupid thing to agree too. If I had been there during the negotiations I would have raised hell as soon as DGT said that. I would not have agreed to any such thing, ever. In fact, if I had been Gamberale in Vancouver I would have demanded they do a proper verification or I would have called off the whole project. I have been fleeced enough times in business deals to know that you never trust anyone. You verify. That's called due diligence. If Gamberale did not confirm the flow rate in Vancouver, he did not perform due diligence." Look, Gamberale is not naive. Or if he was, he should know better, since this probably wouldn't be his first time with him dealing with dishonesty. For example, when he dealt with Blacklight. He pulled out of before the final version of the paper before was sent to the journal (which was rejected). Even though, Blacklight kept citing his name in further papers and in the patent, even citing the name of the journal, as it were indeed accepted. One could suppose that he could had joined after the first version of the paper, but the thing it is he never took part in a paper from Blacklight. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
