I don't agree it's scummy. Scummy is getting someone to build a business on a 1 Billion dollar donation, going for a hostile takeover 10% of the way there, then

I don't agree it's scummy. Scummy is getting someone to build a business on a 1 Billion dollar donation, going for a hostile takeover 10% of the way there, then reneging when that doesn't work. Salvaging your business from that sort of tantrum by working with MS is called surviving.