The point is this. The introduction of Steipp's first commercial product to the world marketplace under his regime was his/LQMT's responsibility to make sure the product to be showcased as such was totally up to Liquidmetal standards.
You have absolved Liquidmetal of any responsibility at all.
They chose Miltner to be their first commercial production. A world class company sets its standards and can insist they prevail to a prospective customer. If the customer MA can't meet LQMT's standards of excellence, then they should have been dismissed from the gitgo. But there was no one standing up for LQMT's interests.
It is clear as day.
Extreme oversight on first commercial introduction is a hell of a lot more important to LQMT's interests, which is what management and shareholders concern themselves with.
It is LQMT's responsibility to assure that they select the right commercial party to work with, especially on such a touted introduction.
Business should be run as a business and not as a "WOW WEE Look at that" R and D play yard. Any executive worth his salt knows this.