>From: "Alec A. Burkhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
>
> > >And,
> > >yes, there most certainly are winners in lawsuits besides the lawyers.
> >
> > Only to a lawyer's mind. The day ANY of the big gaming companies enter
>a
> > lawsuit on this, you will see *nothing* but losers - long before the
> > judgement is entered. The company will lose, the OGL will lose, the
>small
> > game producers will lose, and the customers will lose.
>
>Respectfully, I find this to be complete BS.
As an attorney, I would expect you to. (and I mean no disrespect by this.)
You are again being very literal. You know you *can* win a lawsuit, but
still lose money, time, and public goodwill? IMO *any* lawsuit will shake
faith in the OGL. TSR "won" against Mayfair, but TSR AND the gaming
industry "lost" a great deal in the process.
>And since it is completely
>non-factual and purely opinion there's no reason we can't simply disagree
>on this point.
Agreed. It is very much a matter of opinion only.
>Nothing here provides an incentive
>for the publisher to do your work for you in creating this database.
Where in Gods creation did anyone get the idea this was what I was
suggesting? All >I< did was ask if people were going to SRD their own
material?
>I'm not arguing against the database idea, Faust. My posts were about the
>argument that some have put forth that Publishers should provided their
>OGC content to database providers (assumingly in the format that database
>publisher desires).
I certainly wouldn't support that. But an SRD that "distances the Open
Content from the Closed" as suggested before seemed to me to be a measure
that a prudent company would WANT to take to ensure there were no mistakes.
I am, quite frankly, really surprised there is so much foofarah.
Faust
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