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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2812970" data-attributes="member: 957">No problem, I posted and you started to reply before I cleared it.  I got no complaints coming.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I just pointed out that I cleared it because I do agree that my anger got the better of me and my specific comments were excessive.  The fact that I noticed that after a slight reflection and removed the comments is simply relevant to the context of further replies.My conversation is in regard to recent events only.  If this specific topic has been discussed and rejected before by Wulf, then that would change things.  I don't know that to be the case.  I don't know Wulf well, but I have had dealings with him and I like and respect him.  I believe his is an OGL "good guy" and in the absence of some real clear evidence to the contrary, he is going to get the benefit of the doubt from me here.I am far less certain that "none" of the freeloaders are active in this issue however.  My perception is that the most outraged and aggressive finger pointing is coming from a "you screwing with my free stuff" position.  That does not include everyone by any means.  I agree 100% that there are real jerks out there who are actively and intentionally abusing the OGL and there is nothing that seems to be available to sway them to a non-jerk position.  I do not in any way intend to be supporting that position in the least.  I'm aslo not prepared at this point to lump Wulf in with that group.I haven't read 4+ years of ogl-l posts.  I haven't read a single post.I do not know who the active people in these groups are.  If you come out and tell me that Wulf himself has said he understands the matter and doesn't care then I will have no choice but to change my position and I will feel very bad about that.  But I'll be highly suprised if that is the case.  If you have such information and do not want to post it publicly, I certainly appreciate an e-mail (my username AT mindspring dot com).  I don't know what the advice would be.  It seems a difficult problem.  The answer may be that you just have to suck it up or stop publishing.  But even that, tactfully stated, would be a world of improvement over the attack tone that this entire matter was initiated under.  I hope that seems a reasonable position to take.  I believe it is.</blockquote>

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