Ok I'll (don't drop down dead, here) agree with you, I don't think they'll do it either, I think it'll be suicide if they did, but yes I wouldn't actually be that shocked if they did try it.
Yes but I had no idea of which side of the fence the "ostensibility" sat because you didn't say. It could've been an act of circumstance that your contract turned into a permanent one which is how it came across, I didn't know it was an agreed under the table hand shake to keep the Dash guys quiet, thus making it ostensible from the eyes of the Dash guys.