Hello,
David Bolack wrote:
> >Not if it is not open. If none of it is open, it will help the D&D
> >community as
> >users of the material, but it has no value to the OGL community that can't use
> >anything it contains.
>
> I see. So you can't read the words if it's not open. Appearantly
> commercial publishers use a proprietary version of english youc an read
> without a licensed translator.
Um, ok. That makes absolutely no sense.
> Um. Bullshit. Good product enhances the community no matter what sector
> it comes from.
Perhaps you would care to expand a little bit? I'm afraid that "Bullshit" is not
very descriptive.
> > So if I produce a product that requires no new material be dreamed up
> > > I'm a leech. Check.
> >No, if you never contribute, but only take from the community, you are a
> >leech.
>
> This attitude hardly inspires me to pay for works and give them away.
Um, Ok. Care to expand. Perhaps this is a bit of that proprietary english you
mentioned earlier?
> And it won't matter a bit if all the players in the world want to play if
> there is
> >nothing to play. People do drive this, but it is the material that it all
> >revolves
> >around. One can't survive without the other. And if one doesn't grow, the
> >other is
> >just as hurt.
>
> Right. Can't touch that closed content. Might get capitalism. No cure
> for that disease.
Not quite sure what you are trying to say here either. Are you trying to make a
case that this movement can thrive and expand with no one contributing to the core?
That it will do just fine with people using it with no thought of the community
that allowed it in the first place?
Is that what you meant by disease?
Have Fun,
Darren
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