Yep, ramtagless, you are right on that point. Huge egos on both sides prevented this from happening. The fact of the matter is the WSF's CEO and Board were found to have used malice in an attempt to put GSC/Ovis out of business. What other course of action did Mr. Campbell have? In my opinion, the WSF was really misguided in this whole thing. They could have settled this issue on numerous occasions, but chose to continue the fight as well as acting badly (another case of huge egos refusing to admit they were wrong).
I'm hoping the new CEO and the board members of the WSF can work together with GSC/OVIS to bring this rift to a closure and re-unite all the sheep hunters at one convention.