>From: "Margaret Vining" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Two respectful comments . . .
>In reality, I think everyone believes that the market will not be effected
>by fan work so they ignore it. But if we look at the software model it
>should be obvious that that would be a mistake.
First, this is not really a true statement, either historically or in the
current environment. TSR certainly did not ignore the fan market - they
might have over-reacted, but they viewed it as a very big threat. WotC is
also not ignoring it at all - they are systematically guiding it and using
it very skillfully to sell more of their products.
Further afield, the producers of the "Harry Potter" Movie (Paramount I
think) were so afraid of the fan market that they took the extraordinary
step of shutting down all fan web sites - most of which were run by
pre-teens.
Second, Maggie I really think you are way WAY overestimating the tiny little
impact that the open source movement is actually having on the software
industry. Sure it's causing some small changes in marketing and in how the
big companies target their products, but the impact - in terms of real sales
and market share - is fundamentally minimal.
Dave
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