Re: GEOHEX Terrain

Mike,
     I have two boxes, got them from a friend,
a long time ago.  Are you USA or UK?
Bye for now,
John L.

--- On Mon, 2/27/12, Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@pcisys.net> wrote:

> From: Mike Stanczyk <stanczyk@pcisys.net>
> Subject: GEOHEX Terrain
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 10:46 PM
> I want to pick the group mind about
> GEOHEX Terrain.
> 
> After a trip to the Friendly Local Gaming Store, looking for
> Star Trek 
> hero click Spaceships ($5 for a random ship NO WAY.  I
> can better cheaper
> stuff from Jon.) I wandered into the terrain section. 
> Disappointment.
> 
> I own some GEOHEX terrain which is worlds better than
> anything on offer at
> the FLGS.  I wish I had more.  Which got me
> thinking.  (Never a good thing,
> nyaaa!)
> 
> Can I build more?  Well...  Sorta.  Terrain
> how-to's are a dime a dozen on
> the web.  I could buy polystrene and make my own hexes
> or buy premade hexes.
> But I can't make GEOHEX compatable hexes and shapes. 
> Not on my own.
> 
> GEOHEX, the company, is gone.  I remember.  I know
> that Monday Night 
> Productions has the rights to some of the old GEOHEX
> products but not the
> terrain.
> 
> So, what's the state of the terrain?
> 
> I don't want any sorted details about GEOHEX as a company or
> details about
> their employees.  Google gave me rumors.  I don't
> care.
> 
> I want the knowledge of how to make GEOHEX terrain.  I
> want more terrain.
> I want it 100% compatible with what I already own.  I'd
> like mine to be 
> identical to GEOHEX's but I doubt I have that kind of
> craftmanship.  I want
> the knowledge legally.
> 
> Can I buy a license?	Nope.  Nearly broke and
> unemployed again.  I'd like
> to see the knowledge open sourced or at least creative
> common licensed so
> everyone can benifit and build their own.  I don't want
> to start a terrain
> selling business.
> 
> If someone shows up saying, "Hey I own the license back
> off", I will.
> If someone says the terrain is dead legally, and it has to
> stay that way,
> I'll respect that, with proof.  (You say you own the
> copyright, prove it.
> No bogus DMCA kinda stuff.)
> 
> If K.R. is lurking around let me know.  If someone on
> the list knows him,
> let him know about this.  His knowledge and/or blessing
> is desired, even if
> he tells me to STFU.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>