well, they'll basically lose half the costs immediately, since they'll stop paying the second developer's salary. If that's 16k and they lost 10k last year, thi

well, they'll basically lose half the costs immediately, since they'll stop paying the second developer's salary. If that's 16k and they lost 10k last year, this year they can be in the black if they don't dip further. This said, I reckon the real issue is that the guy wants 50/60k from the shares, so the lawyer went "we'll ask for 100k and negotiate"... but on the other side they probably think 26k was already a compromise, and aren't willing to budge further.