[threatofrain]

What's strange is that Dmitry continued to work for defcon after a stop work order, and also that Dmitry was originally invited to speak on stage (smells like consideration).

Based on the sum of all statements it continues to be very plausible that Dmitry basically had no on-paper relationship with anyone... and did everything on a pure friends and family basis. If so that is a huge awkward fuckup.

Also unfortunate is the possibility that if Dmitry is just some detached party trying to defend Entropic's honor, he basically started a firestorm which burned bridges between Entropic and defcon.

Once Dmitry started the whole thing, defcon immediately attacked the reputation of Entropic by saying they exercised bad faith in business and were incompetent and profligate. Defcon attacked so hard that there was no way to unring that bell. Then Entropic had no choice but to respond to defcon.