>>ashley+57
A potential alternative is to arrange a back-end revenue share agreement. Either ink an agreement along with Purism's CPA firm, and/or Purism files Form 8821 granting Qubes as a disclosure designee, sharing Purism's tax returns information with Qubes. This helps confirm the shipped units in a relatively neutral manner, and charge based upon a percentage of the shipped units. Not at all ideal, because Qubes has no control over Purism's business and how much they ship, among a host of other reasons, but I'd like to see this security focus broaden, and would regret seeing perfect cost recovery being the enemy of good enough cost recovery sink the hardware certification that helps broaden the security emphasis.