It was our very own BOD members who personally negotiated the original Com Ag with Leckrone; and they even paid themselves something like $170,000 for doing that. You remember, the ComAg that we later filed in court to disolve, and that we claimed was "unequal" and that we said disadvantaged us ? ... Don't worry though, we signed another ComAg, and TPL is not doing the main licensing work anymore; Alliacense is.
As far as Apple.. for years, even at long spans up through 2002, Apple was only an $8 stock.