Great question! It is for the same reason that Google agreed to a really high breakup fee with motorola. It signals its willingness to fight the lawsuit up to t

Great question! It is for the same reason that Google agreed to a really high breakup fee with motorola. It signals its willingness to fight the lawsuit up to the cost of the breakup at the least. Therefore it signals to regulators that they won't be a pushover. That means a lot to agencies that are severely underfunded. They would rather not even start something that will last half a decade or more, like the msft case It's a common example in game theory of how agreeing to ridiculous terms benefits the agent