Well, LL is for a mix of option #1 and 2, so I guess I have to agree with him (he is my guild leader).
But really, why on Earth do people want to destroy already good guilds? Do you have any idea what a GM run guild will be like?! You can't pay someone to run a guild and run it well, its like having the government being in control of FC, FC would be ruined and the game would become a boring, non-improving, waste of servers. The people who run guilds must WANT to run the guilds and still pay FC money to do it, you can't put someone in who is only in charge to get paid. Try joining one of the event-GM run guilds, they have absolutly no structure and not many people stay in them for long.
Along with this; no one in the guild can question what the GM/ARK wants to do. If so they could be banned if the GM/ARK wants to get nasty about it, and FC already has enough stuff to worry about and I don't think Gaute wants to deal with any more problems.
It's not illegal untill there is a law against it, and you can't punish someone for doing something before it became illegal. Just offer a bonus or whatever to the guilds that already take the names FC wants to use, so they can switch peacefully.
What if FC forces the name changes then does nothing else? You will have a bunch of angry players, and a bunch of other players who are being blamed for supporting the change.
What if omni-pol was changed to omni-police, omni-med was changed to omni-medical, omni-admin was changed to omni-administration, ect... With this the guilds/organizations will keep nearly the same names but FC could put new companies in. If a guild already had the name omni-medical then the two could join, or either of them could pick an entirely different name. For the clans you could have a "The Knights clan" or "The Sentinels clan", ect... Still with minor name changes and the same could be done if another guild already had the name picked as with OT.
Can we find out what FC actually wants to do with these new companies? If they are just creating something which is FC run, then I think its a dumb idea in general and will fail. If FC actually wants to use these guilds to have them do something in-game to build up the plot, then I think its a great idea.