" 

 =Legal threats against FS2 Community= 
 I do not feel it would be appropriate for me to add this as I was a direct participant of this piece of history. Derek Smart was considering acquiring the rights to FreeSpace 2 and came into our forums at Hard Light Productions (then hosted on 3dap, not at hard-light.net) and asked us about it - he got a resounding ""NO!"" from the community and then became hostile.  He made baseless legal threats at my project The Ferrium Project (now defunct) and to the FreeSpace 2: Source Code Project (http://scp.indiegames.us).  Feel free to email me for any and all details - slashdot article: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/17/0533221, my email address is thekazanNOSPAN at gmail DOT com - here are direct links to my slashdot posts on the subject - 

 http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114794&cid;=9724898  (many of the AC comments are suspected to be none other than Derek Smart in his flaming greatness)  "