And I'm cool with that as I don't get along well with ideologues of any slant anyway. Mark me a bad cultural fit.

As for my reasons, I filed them defensively with large companies so that I wouldn't get out-patented by some Texas Troll and then face the situation of my supposed prior art versus their big money. Deal with the devil I know, but that's the suboptimal choice I made. And life is full of those.