Well, lets say what your seeing here is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sure they might have had an "mutal" agreement over Chris providing the stack, but that "mutal" agreement didn't include {bleep}izing the PCI-card (read making it possible to charge supreme for whats really a 10$ OEM-part), nor connecting it to nasty trojans.
Remember how Elbox claimed they didn't need to buy P96, cos they would realease their own RTG-system shortly after ? Yup the claimed the same bout the USB-stack. Now lets see how far they get without one...