“That’s why even when we were right on the verge of triumph in our lawsuit with Honeywell, we settled out of court. By that time Google had bought our company and Honeywell was a major customer of theirs. It didn’t matter that we were right and Honeywell was wrong; it was a business decision. Google decided that paying off Honeywell and maintaining that relationship was preferable to going to court—especially since the cost of the settlement came out of Nest’s coffers and not Google’s.”