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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1684926" data-attributes="member: 2855">Rumors - true,  we have no idea what all is going on behind the scenes. Please note, however, that your posts are treating those "grumblings" as if they were true. You are not giving the old board the same "benefit of doubt" that you are wanting to give Dancey. There is no proof as to whether those grumblings are true or not.Dancey's actions in regards to the "penetration" (the press release's word) of the GAMA Board's mailing list - that is not a rumor, that is established fact as Dancey has admitted to doing it. As to its legality, go look up and read the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. According to that, what he did was a criminal act. Whether or not he will go to jail for it is another matter entirely, but it IS a possibility.As to Dancey's past public actions - I would say that there is some arguement about whether or not the OGL/d20 licenses are good for the gaming industry in the long run. EN World lists over 1600 d20 products on its publishers pages. There are a number of good products on that list, but there is also a lot of duplication of products (how books on Dragon's does one need?) and there are just as many, if not more, crappy products on that list than there are good ones. The phenomena of the OGL/d20 licenses and its merits/flaws could fill a thread many times the size of this one, I think, and so I won't even attempt to get into it here.One thing that can be seen from Dancey's statements and proposals is that he tends to want to favor bigger companies over smaller ones, and give preferential and special treatment to those larger companies, rather than treating all companies fairly. This is shown to good effect by his Origins Awards proposals where he wanted to  add products to the post-nomination lists based on sales, rather than on quality (something I argued vehemently against).As for why we should care about GAMA - No, GAMA does not have a "direct" effect on gamers, but it does have a sizable "indirect" effect through the GAMA Trade Show (which showcases new products to retailers and distributors, which in turn affects what products your FLGS will carry), and through Origins, the second largest gaming convention in the US.</blockquote>

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