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Billet estimated the cost of the prototype to be $800. They never sent them a product.
Linus said "they agreed on compensation" and yet billet has stated they never responded to his offer, that he sent literal hours after GN posted the main video. Linus lied here. He can say he is compensating them all he wants, but there has not been any agreement made between the parties involved. They didn't want payment, they wanted their fucking prototype back.
You already have incorrect information. That is the cost of the actual product not the cost of the prototype.
And he did not lie, he said agreed to compensate them which he did do. That doesn't require an agreement between parties, he decided he would do it which is objectively true.
They can make another one with the money. It's not like they took the CAD files. It's a manufactured piece of copper. It can be rebuilt.