Credit was not erased from the PCB nor the software, which were the parts Entropic was contracted to do. They declined to include entropic on the plastics, which is understandable given that Entropic didn’t do the plastics. It also likely saved machining costs on the mold for a project that was already over budget.
The original accusations appear to be a little exaggerated.
And issuing a stop work order doesn't mean you can just not pay for the work done so far. It means you're not paying for any further work.
These two statements cannot be both true at the same time 🠉 🠋
> Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built to discount our work as necessary in order to hit DEFCON’s per unit cost targets.