You reap what you sow - GSL.

[jdrakeh]

That's right. We should PM him this thread and tell him to come answer us if he has time. Monte too

Or we could stay on topic.

Regardless of who designated what content OGC in Iron Heroes and any WotC books that Mr. Mearls has worked on, the facts remain that Mr. Mearls proposed an OGC wiki and that many publishers rejected the proposal based, not on anything that Mr. Mearls said or did, nor based on who Mr. Mearls worked for, but specifically because they did not want their OGC to be re-used or made available in a form that made re-use easy for other publishers and fans.

Arguing about whether or not it was rude of Mr. Mearls to propose the project is a completely unrelated issue that sidesteps the written record of events and diverts attention away from the real issue, which was that many publishers were playing dirty poker by trying to place demands of non-use on content already desiganted as OGC.

There is a long-running public record of the OGC wiki debate in several message board threads and blog posts. I don't recall (nor can I locate) a single instance of a publisher rejecting the OGC wiki because Mr. Mearls wrote for WotC or other companies that didn't release a great deal of OGC, or because they felt Mr. Mearls to be self-righteous. No, without exception, AFAICT, the publishers who rejected the wiki did so because they wanted to retroactively restrict already open content.

 

[Mark]

I have agreed that I'm okay with being punched in the face.

Given your posting history, you might not want to let that get around.

 

[Mark]

Also, wasn't Mearls writing Iron Heroes in a very narrow window before taking a job at Wotc?

You think Monte would have given him a well lit work environment.

 

[SSquirrel]

Or we could stay on topic.

Well I figured I may as well propose an answer to get people over the off topicness. It will probly fail tho

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

You think Monte would have given him a well lit work environment.

What, I thought he was forced to work from Montes basement!

 

[mearls]

Mike's a great guy, but given Iron Heroes' OGC declaration, he has no moral high ground at all.

This statement makes the false assumption that I had any hand whatsoever in that declaration.

 

[jdrakeh]

Well I figured I may as well propose an answer to get people over the off topicness. It will probly fail tho

I want you to blow on my dice if we ever meet in real life! I need luck like yours. . .

This statement makes the false assumption that I had any hand whatsoever in that declaration.

We now have written confirmation that Occam's razor still works

 

[Aus_Snow]

I sincerely hope that ain't a euphemism.

 

[jdrakeh]

I sincerely hope that ain't a euphemism.

D'oh! No! Noooooooooo! Noooooooooooooooooo! Edited for content!

 

[Aus_Snow]

Yeah I know, I was just being silly.

It was pretty bizarre, and not what I was expecting to see happen. Mr. Mearls turning up, I mean.

What was the whole point again? Oh yeah, moral high ground. Just for something different, eh. (not you btw, I mean the thread in general.)

Maybe I'm delirious. THink I'll stumble off and take something for this bloody flu.