I posted the above interview mainly because it illustrates one very important thing that seems to be usually overlooked:
Judging from all I've read, it seems to be true that, until the final demise of TSR in 1999, Gygax and Arneson had the relationship Gygax describes.
A working relationship, but not necessarily a strained one. They were not friends, but then, not to be friends doesn't mean to be at odds with each other. It was only after WotC brought Arneson in to promote 3e that Gygax, or, rather, the Gygax camp, started these nonsensical hostilities towards Arneson.
This might not be as controversial as one may think, though: In the last decade of his life, Gygax had bad relationships with almost all of his former collaborators. The beef with Arneson was ertainly the most publicised fallout, but apparently by far not the only one.
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