Personally, I find it all quite sad. I knew Malcolm and would often have long chats with him. He was genuinely passionate about the SAM and it was never about the money and to my knowledge, he would never have sent a note like his son, Duncan, did as an opening letter.
The SAM community was relatively small and most people knew the others involved and I'm sure any discrepancies would have been easily and amicably cleared up. 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 just hope he doesn't intend on retiring early on the income from SAM software sales ;-) Saturday, October 23, 2004, 11:31:23 PM, you wrote: david> to the Defender page on your site? >> >> I would have to question the exact products and >> rights 'owned' by Persona in >> this case, as quite a few titles were just >> distributed by them... such as >> David Ledbury's old publications - Sam Prime etc, >> and the game Manic Miner >> which David personally owned the rights to (given to >> him directly by the >> author Matthew Holt) which was why David was able to >> kindly let me use Manic >> Miner on the coverdisk for Sam Revival issue 9. david> Indeed so, and no other titles have been released by david> anyone else to my knowledge either. david> (Manic Miner was never signed over to Persona - david> Matthew Holt gave it to me to "do what you want to" david> when I still had Phoenix. Basically he'd seen no money david> on the game since SAMCo had it... and certainly from david> no other publishers before me.)
