--- woodelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 10:25 -0400 7/21/03, William Wise wrote: >Tell them it works like Linux...
...except a Linux where anybody can develop anything they want, except a new TCP/IP stack, and no matter what you do or how good it is, your changes will never be reincorporated into new Linux builds.
Think so? Take a look in some of the recent Dragon magazines, where they've published OGC content. That's now available to a HUGE number of games.
it's still not being incorporated into "the kernel". not saying it never will, but until WotC decides to take all that cool OGC floating around out there and make the next version of D&D the latest, cutting-edge game they can, using the very best ideas out there, D&D itself isn't directly benefitting from open-source development. Indirectly, sure, from the whole "network externalities" thing. But not from the "many monkeys" thing.
and since WotC doesn't own Dragon any more, it's even less like reworking the core stuff than it would've been had a WotC-owned Dragon published unofficial game stuff.
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