If Stollman got a dollar offer and turned it down -- and he's often maintained that his ex-wife got the ESP rights as part of the divorce settlement -- then that's too bad.
a few months ago, some people on the Sun Ra list were discussing possible reissues of old lp's. Someone had heard a rumor that the Horo lp's were being released on cd. I got in touch with the guy who was supposedly doing it, and he said that he was TRYING to get the rights to the Horo stuff, but in the meantime he had made a deal to release material that was recorded at the Heliocentric sessions for ESP. i think he was going to call it "heliocentric worlds, vol.3". anyway, after i posted that info, i got an email from Bernard Stollman himself, wondering who this label was. all this leads me to believe Stollman still maintains some sort of (financial)interest in the ESP catalog. sean