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I was a little surprised by Privateer's response, it reminded me of when someone takes something potentially minor between employees straight to the bosses and ends up making a huge mess and causing everyone grief.

What I would have hoped to have happen:
Privateer gets the C&D, contacts LWD, opens a dialogue to get some clarification before taking action, the syntax discrepancies explained in the open apology get discovered and addressed, mutually agreeable conclusion is reached.

I'm a big fan of PP, but I'm with LWD all the way here. You have to enforce your IP; there's a fast-food joint out here in SoCal called Tommy's, which started in downtown LA on Rampart and became locally famous for the best chili burger and fries around in the 60s, then over the course of the 70s and 80s didn't bother to police the use of the name one bit, which resulted in every burger stand across the basin calling itself Tom's, Tommi's, Tommy's, etc. Before they knew it, no one had any idea what it meant to be 'the original Tommy's' anymore and they almost faded back into obscurity until they went on a massive PR campaign, opening a slew of new locations and really hammering their IP home.

LWD's product isn't a burger joint, but it's definitely a cautionary tale of the consequences of letting your guard down.

I hope we can all get past this, and get those Tyranid updates online already! I've have to write like 3 or 4 lists by hand and I'm about to give up the ghost over here!

-Dis.