I experienced only minor psychic harm until the bit about IT saying that the MIT license not being good enough, whereupon I became wracked by both pain and laughter for the remainder of the article. And finding out the whole process could be handwaved by one guy that just had coffee with the right people is so classic.
He’s not a consultant is he, you can tell. At the end he should have said 10 months and this is my fee. 6 times that of what he’s on now.