Living, you can be assured that Mac was not actively looking for someone to palm off Radient to. He would have assumed that no one would be stupid enough to take over. Charter wanted something and contacted Mac. Charter knew Radient was going to disappear and he wanted the technology to manufacture in case he ever found anyone interested in financing his spit test.
DR70 was going off patent in one more month so Radient's assets would have been zero. Instead of wasting his time with some sort of agreement, Mac just gave Charter the company.
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