Guys- face it, Freespace 3 is dead. Not happening. Even if this guy buys it, by what I've seen of his past games, it wouldn't even be worth the bargin bin.
Let the game go, but use it to advance your own interests. If Derek were to buy the rights, he's looking at about 3 to 4 years to put out a quality game.. one that a distributor will release.
And the status of the internet and technology, or just the FSCP in that amount of time will eclipse anything this guy can outsource to India.
Will the result of the FSCP be Freespace? doesn't have to be. You can call it something unique, like "Freespace: Endgame" and provided the engine used was either derivitive of the FS2 engine (or somethign unique) and 80% of the content is changed, you're free to do as you please.