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<blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 1385895" data-attributes="member: 3029">I'll just put back in the part of your post that you edited out (above) ....Interesting that you expect us to believe your statements in the very same post where you admit your bias.{The quote atrributed to Dave is correct. There was no lawsuit. (i.e. nothing ever went to court).}Correct on a technicality, then? i.e., legal action, but not brought before a court, and thus not a lawsuit (which the dictionary defines as &quot;an action or a suit brought before a court&quot;)?Riddle me this ... how did KenzerCo, which at the time was a very tiny company, managed to land the greatly valued and expensive license to produce not only 3E D&amp;D products with the official logo, but also the rights to 1E AD&amp;D (i.e., Hackmaster)? If KenzerCo can land this license (which almost certainly required plopping down at least $10,000 as an initial fee, quite a lot in the RPG industry), how come none of the other big players in the early days of the d20 industry have managed that? Certainly White Wolf has the money, and having the D&amp;D logo instead of the D20 logo is a guarantee of greater sales ....And wasn't Kenzer a lawyer before he started KenzerCo?There's a lot that doesn't add up about this situation.{ I'm just pointing it out because a lot of the speculation surrounding a 'lawsuit' over the Dragon CD&nbsp; seems to assume we were under the same contract as other freelancers. That's certainly not the case.}I don't think that (whether or not your strips had a different contract) is the speculation. The speculation is about whether or not their was a lawsuit (or any sort of legal action) and if that affected certain licenses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seankreynolds, post: 1385895, member: 3029"] I'll just put back in the part of your post that you edited out (above) .... Interesting that you expect us to believe your statements in the very same post where you admit your bias. {The quote atrributed to Dave is correct. There was no lawsuit. (i.e. nothing ever went to court).} Correct on a technicality, then? i.e., legal action, but not brought before a court, and thus not a lawsuit (which the dictionary defines as "an action or a suit brought before a court")? Riddle me this ... how did KenzerCo, which at the time was a very tiny company, managed to land the greatly valued and expensive license to produce not only 3E D&D products with the official logo, but also the rights to 1E AD&D (i.e., Hackmaster)? If KenzerCo can land this license (which almost certainly required plopping down at least $10,000 as an initial fee, quite a lot in the RPG industry), how come none of the other big players in the early days of the d20 industry have managed that? Certainly White Wolf has the money, and having the D&D logo instead of the D20 logo is a guarantee of greater sales .... And wasn't Kenzer a lawyer before he started KenzerCo? There's a lot that doesn't add up about this situation. { I'm just pointing it out because a lot of the speculation surrounding a 'lawsuit' over the Dragon CD seems to assume we were under the same contract as other freelancers. That's certainly not the case.} I don't think that (whether or not your strips had a different contract) is the speculation. The speculation is about whether or not their was a lawsuit (or any sort of legal action) and if that affected certain licenses. [/QUOTE]

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