> 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.
