On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> >From: "J. Michael Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >Ah, no. Some net books are in fact illegal (or copyright/trademark
> >violations, same thing).
>
> The chief value of a Netbook over OGL is that the netbook allows FANS to use
> many Trademarks and much Copyright material that the OGL expressly forbids.
And when, not if, WoTC changes the Netbook Policy, what then?
> A matter of opinion. IMHO the online use policy serves the same goal as the
> OGL (to promote sales of WotC products) but for a different segment of the
> market (FANs who want to use WotC trademarks in a not-for-sale arena).
> There would (logically) be no reason for WotC to eliminate it, and the
> downside could potentially be very high.
Ok, for the record, some of the "Fans" are attempting to release NetBooks
under the OGL. With silly ass "You can't sell this" things attached to
them, plus violations of both the OGL and the D20STL. Now what?
(http://rpghost.com/WebWarlock/downloads/3ewitch.pdf)
If that URL doesn't work go to http://rpghost.com/WebWarlock/ and click on
the 3e witch thing about halve way down the navigation frame.
> Again, a matter of opinion.
Yeah, but with both we are going to have problems, as shown above. It
gets down to this, which would you rather WoTC keep, because I will bet
they are only going to keep one of them. My money is in OGL/D20STL.
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