Someone really doesn't like having their toys insulted ... there are definitely some pretty thin-skinned defenders of shovelware who think that they can comment on threads surreptitiously in other threads
I have an autographed copy of the original book somewhere in a box. I hope he's able to do something great with the property. Can you imagine? Making something cool, it hitting big, then being locked out of using it for 35 years. What a terrible system.