>From: Doug Meerschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The OGF is, apparantly, a non-profit entity that is divorced from WotC. It
>just happens to be ran by WotC's VP of RPG design, but that doesn't mean
>that
>WotC corporate can influence the OGF.
Uhhhhhhh.... (rotfl)
Just let me get this straight. You are suggesting that just because the OGF
is set up by, run by, and owned by a WotC corporate executive, "that doesn't
mean the WotC can influence them?"
Yeah right, like Bill Gates isn't the CEO of Microsoft anymore so Steve
Ballmer doen't have to listen to him.
>The OGF will hold trademarks in its name,
No. The OGF will hold trademarks in Wizards' name. Or haven't you noticed
the statement at the beginning of the OGL, "Copyright 1999, 2000 Wizards of
the Coast."
>and nowhere is it disclosed that the
>OGF is a subsidary of WotC... thus, it isn't.
A "non-profit corporation" is a legal organization established with its
charter stating that is is set up for "not for profit" purposes. Period.
No more, no less. Whoever started it owns it, and is still in 100% control
of it. It can be owned by ANYBODY, including a corporation. A non profit
corporation is ridiculously easy to set up and (usually) is wholly owned and
controlled by the person or organization that set it up.
Do you think there is some "shadowy organization of gamers" that we haven't
heard about that is creating this so that WotC doesn't have control? Or
maybe all the gamers in the world are going to come together each year under
a full moon and vote by secret tally for the board of directors.
Just out of curiosity (as I am *REALLY* curious) who did YOU think was going
to control it?
Faust (still rotflmao)
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