I just followed a link to the WotC boards, looking for something else. And there, in a thread about the release of D&D3.5E, is someone sayin' "i just don't get this whole OGL thing--how does WotC expect to make any money if they give their books away?" [i'm paraphrasing, but not by much]. Three years later, and this is someone who's at least sufficiently net-savvy to know it exists, and to be chatting online. And he doesn't actually know how the whole D20STL thing works, in terms of a business model. And the original D20SRD certainly hasn't made WotC bankrupt, so assuming that they are somehow "giving it all away" seems vaguely ludicrous, and yet here he is asking just that.
OK, you win (whoever "you" are)--we've still got a long way to go in making open gaming a viable beast, and giving "D20 System" some reasonable fraction of the oomph of "D&D" on a book.
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