(Thin smile...)   No patents and no money for lawyers to fight them if they had them.   “Cutting all costs” means going out of business, and competitors might find nothing of value.   Furthermore, these are well-respected going concerns whose work is still very important to their customers’ own business operations.   “Falure is really not an option,” and it’s no place for flippant responses.   (I mean no offense by that, and cordially apologize right here in public if any would be taken.)