"The Demented also claim to have done the same, but they are mostly using the old programing team that failed to go anywhere with the code."
That's interesting zenus. You wrote this: "What everybody seems to forget here is that this is about who has an exclusive license that is at the heart of the question."
Based on the letter exchange that I read from Iterated's lawyers to TMM's lawyers (circa 1996) this will not bode well for TMMI.
Frackedup is right, the letters are in the evidence file.