Tony maybe I am reading in to what you wrote the wrong way as some sort of stab at EFILive for not doing something like this ourselves? After seeing how the OS is protected on these ECM's we never pursued the idea of developing a true DSP OS for the LML, so the only thing we've been 'beaten' by is Bosch.
What Ben has done is a great solution given the restraints imposed by the hardware design, there is no angst, jealously or envy going on here. As long as Ben is getting a cut from the product that I assume is now selling his idea then good on him.