> Commercial advantage? How? He has links back to his website.
> not extremely prominent ones from the descriptions I have heard.
Click on Earth Logs, either at the top or bottom of the page.
> Ok, I have just gone and looked at the page myself, and I am even
> more to agreeing that Fuastus has done nothing wrong there. He
> isn't trying to sell anything on that page. As a matter of fact,
> whenever Fuastus has directed anybody to the FAQ he has always
> given his Earth 1066 site's address.
> Wrong again... Fuastus is NOT trying to get anybody to DO
> anything. He has said (although I will admit that his wording leaves
> something to be desired - but if you have been on this list for a
> while, you will have learned to take what he says with a grain of
> salt and to try to look beyond how he says something to get at
> what he is TRYING to say) that the domain names will become the
> property of the OGF once the OGF has an official legal existance
> (like we were all told so long ago).
His intent may be different than what he wrote. But he states that the legal
existence must be under specific terms of his own determination.
> Redundancy.... He is stating that he is going to give the domains
> to the OGF (not to Ryan personally, nor to WOTC) oncethe OGF
> exists as a legal entity.
That conforms to his standards.
> Also, Ryan's only comment on the situation is to grumble about
> how his partner messed up by not getting the domains like Ryan
> had asked him to in the first place.
There may be other reasons as well.
> Now before you jump back on your moral high horse, just
> remember that the OGF currently has no legal existence. It is
> currently the Ryan's website, a personal website, as it is
> maintained by him, for his own purposes (NOT by WOTC). As
> such, there isn't really a lot that I can see that can be done other
> than wait.
I think you are assuming there is something wrong with morals. You are
incorrect though in that it has no legal existence as its contents are
covered under several people's and company's respective copyrights.
> All this fuss is because *somebody* thinks that Faustus is being a
> bad boy in keeping those domains under his control for now.
You are right, probably a lot of somebodies do.
> As for Ryan taking legal action, as a highly placed employee at
> WOTC, don't you think he has access to lawyers to ask exactly
> what his options are in the situation? If he had wanted to pursue
> this, I am sure that he would have already done so in some form or
> another. In other words, this is really between Ryan (who is the
> OGF for all intents and purposes right now) and Faustus. The rest
> of us should just drop the matter and leave it be.
Im going to drop it, just for the matter that this isnt getting anywhere and
once the legal minds go to work on it, it will get settled one way or the
other. However this is not just a matter of Ryan but anyone associated with
or thinking about being associated with OGF. I know that I will consider
this in regard to my own work.
--Lynn
