It doesn't make sense.
If he wants to share this technology out of altruistic reasons and not get rich, he should have published his technology in peer reviewed papers.
If he wanted to get rich, he should have patented the technology.
He did neither. Thus everything is mumbo jumbo. That falls right in the space where normal humans and idiots are scammed.
In fact he should be shot, not his partner, for the crime of thinking that the world is dumber than himself.