It is no 2!
I am totally convinced that this is what happend. THey all started buying houses just like we started celebrating. In the end sth. happend that made our patens much less valuable if not worthless on the long run.
So offcourse LEki also doesnt like paying MOore 13 k a month while he doesnt make mcuh moeny with htose patens anymore.
To your question on why nobody admitted that:
They were trying and still try toget the last out of the patens. I.E. get small money from small companies that donot have good lawyers. Admitting that s.th. is wrong with them patents publicly is like barreying them in the ground!