At 11:25 PM 8/22/00 -0400, "Martin L. Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>No crying here. Merely fed up with incivility, especially incivility in the
>face of Ryan's repeated attempts to play the peacemaker. You continue to
>feel the right to insult because you feel superior to the rest of us. Sooner
>or later, if your insults are not reined in, this list will become nothing
>BUT insults, and this little corner of Open Gaming will die.
I haven't insulted anyone on this list, aside from your hypothetical publisher.
The more I hear about him, the less I like. I won't be buying any of his
games.
Personally, I think some of us are doing publishers a favor by using the
term "leech" in an abstract manner aimed at no one in particular. You
should know that some people have certain expectations of publishers who
use open gaming content (even if you think we're tree-hugging commie
nimrods). It's better to hash the topic out now while we all are figuring
out where we stand on the subject of open game content, rather than doing it
later with a real publisher in the crosshairs.
After reading all of these messages, I think most people seem to view open
content as a way to ride WOTC's coattails and make some extra money with
their own closed works. There's nothing wrong with closed works or making
money. I just hope that as you start working with open content, you realize
how much value there is in making some of your own content available to
this community.
Rogers Cadenhead
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.prefect.com
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