"I never suggested any actual impropriety, what I asked for was that the Ruhi Institute materials be placed in the public digital domain, in order to avoid/mitigate any semblance of impropriety,"
The problem Steve, is that I don't think anyone saw any semblance of impropriety until you suggested it. I have sometimes wondered if Ruhi would have gotten as far as it did had not Dr. Arbab been on the House of Justice, but the idea that anyone would do this for personal gain would never have occurred to me. Aren't all the organizations you mention, non-profit? "I would like to understand better the intellectual property aspects of the Ruhi Foundation's curriculum production business and the Network of agencies which goes by the moniker Development Learning Association of which the Ruhi Foundation is a member. Respond to this post if you can shed any meaningful scholarly light." First off, what does 'scholarly light' have to do with their coming on here and to answer a challenge to put their stuff in the public domain in order to avoid an 'appearance' of impropriety that wasn't there until you opened your mouth? That's like a certain person on TRB who is constantly asking me to produce my tax records to prove I'm not on the payroll of the ITC! Such charges shouldn't be dignified with an answer. "These social and economic institutions and orgnizations, some of which are private and some agencies of NSA's should perhaps be disentangled from the worldwide internal human resource development programs of the Bahai Faith, is all I am suggesting??." Why? Again, are any of them other than non-profit organizations? "And just for the record, I have forgiven those who have suggested I have slandered Paul Lample" Gee, how generous of you. ;-} "but I insist that such suggestions cease forthwith." I'd like to see Ruhi in the public domain as well since, as I mentioned, it would make modifying it much simpler. But when you start demanding that organizations and people let go of their copyrights in order to 'avoid the appearance of impropriety' you are certainly implying wrongdoing. I would not have used the word 'slander' to describe your earlier comments, and I thought some people overreacted a bit. But I have to agree with James and Janine that it was inappropriate. And this post indicates you still 'don't get it.' Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
