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Originally Posted by Pokerkeep
I agree 100% with you regarding the trust factor. CAP (PAP) and GPWA both accept and certify programs based on financial sponsorship. AGD still stands alone! Those of us who know that difference will continue to put our trust and support behind AGD.
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I'd like to be very clear that GPWA does not certify programs. If you look at the GPWA website you will see we try to be very clear that we have sponsors and we do our best to avoid any statements on our site that a program is certified simply because it chooses to support the GPWA as a sponsor. Certification is a complicated process, and I have not wanted us to claim any sort of certification without a good process in place.
With the recent acquisition of the APCW Audit staff that will likely change since I feel we may be in a position to begin to do some meaningful certification work. But even then I doubt that I would use the term certification since the meaning of that word has been so tainted by the meaning of the term CAP certification. And we would certainly focus on a different aspect of certification that affiliate guard dog.
Having watched CAP take GPWA ideas (as noted earlier in this thread) and produce inferior versions of them as check-off items for some time, I appreciate Andy's pain much more than most of you might realize.
Some of that is just business, but there is a way of doing business where you try to complement what others are doing and there is a way of doing business where you try to crush anyone else that has good ideas.
Michael