Contreras-Sweet, a Hollywood outsider and Mexican-American immigrant, reportedly plans to keep the studio's employees, projects and assets.
Both countries seem unable to move beyond affirmations of the legitimacy, even moral purpose, of their employees' projects.
Another employee, project manager Sue Cull, said: "I've just popped into work for something and found out about it and it's fantastic.
A member of staff leaving work for the day, who did not want to be named, said the new millionaires were all members of management, while another employee, project manager Sue Cull, said she thought they worked for Hewlett-Packard.
One design, for example, would allow employees to project images of their choice on a screen suspended over their desks.
Ruido opens with eight employees and project work for the Office of National Drug Control Policy Ruidoo is collaborating on that work with Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in New York, part of the WPP Group.
Global consulting firm Accenture, which has a similar voluntary secondment programme, is now mainstreaming non-profit assignments into employees' core project workflow.
Despite having as many as 1,400 employees, the project has been bogged down by the delays, cost increases and design changes that come with seemingly every significant piece of Brazilian infrastructure.
Though the source code was released to fans, official development was abandoned and employees like project lead JP LeBreton were laid off.
