--- Dan Doore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm personally saddened by the tone of Duncan's > email. If he owns the > > rights to something, then I'm sure no-one has any > objections to him > > exercising those rights. > > I think that was the thing that upset me the most, I > too had many > conversations with Malcolm and his passion for the > Sam was something we > could all relate to because we felt the same way. > > With regard to Defender (which will be why he sent > me the mail I presume) > from all the information I have Chris still owns > this and not Persona and he > released it as non-profit freeware (Dec 20th 2001 > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.btinternet.com/~c.pile/) > - the only > reason I have it on my site is that Chris' website > was shut down and I put > together a page to keep it 'active' on the web as a > service to the community > *sigh* > > I have removed he download for the time being and if > Duncan can prove that > he has the rights then I will happily remove it (and > send a copy of his > rights assertion to Midway Games >:->>) - if he > can't then it will go right > back up again where it belongs - in the public > domain. > > I also wonder if this means that anyone owed > royalties will be able to claim > them back, with compound interest :-) > > Dan. > > >
I wonder if he understands the fact that there is, and never really was any money in the SAM, that it was a machine supported by us, and his father as an act of love... and that his father would not want him to act in such a manner? Perhaps Dan, you should send him a message, as a .dsk file with one of your smoooooth basic scrollers :) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com