Greetings All,
Let us hearken back to the days of Gary Gygax and the original D&D
publications. Anyone familiar with that evolution might be a bit gun-shy
about OG. It was UGLY. I'm sure there are people on this list who met or
worked with Gygax during that time. Anyone want to provide a little history
about lessons learned?
>From: "Jay Adan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [Open_Gaming] Non-D20 Reference Documents
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:30:27 -0400
>
>Clark,
>
>Your still putting your head in the sand. Your assumption that this might
>NOT happen shows that clearly. This kind of stuff happens with copyrighted
>material all the time and you think that it won't happen with material that
>it is legal to do so?
>
>- Jay
>
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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Clark Peterson
>Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:34 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Open_Gaming] Non-D20 Reference Documents
>
>
>Here is a thought:
>
>We should be cautious at first. If lots of sites
>spring up ripping out and posting all our open content
>then it is inevitable and will have to be dealt with.
>If nothing of the sort happens, then lets have the
>database Faust suggests with full content all in one
>place. I would encourage people making databases such
>as the ones Faust suggests to adopt the "abbreviated
>list" format from my previous email, at least until we
>see how real the danger to comercial viability this
>may prove. Wouldnt it be tragic if a database of OGC
>by d20 producers removed the commercial incentive to
>create OGC and therefor hindered OGC.
>
>Look, now its me with conspiracy theories. :)
>
>Clark
>
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