> > >Not if it is not open. If none of it is open, it will help the D&D
> > >community as
> > >users of the material, but it has no value to the OGL community that
> can't use
> > >anything it contains.
> >
> > I see. So you can't read the words if it's not open. Appearantly
> > commercial publishers use a proprietary version of english youc an read
> > without a licensed translator.
>
>Um, ok. That makes absolutely no sense.
You state the material can't be used if it's not open. Clearly either
you have a remarkably limited definition of the word use that includes
inobvious conditionals or content that is not opened can't be read and
used by gamers.
Which is it?
>Perhaps you would care to expand a little bit? I'm afraid that "Bullshit"
>is not
>very descriptive.
Good products provide inspiration, source, references, and/or a good
time. This *gasp* helps the gaming community.
> > This attitude hardly inspires me to pay for works and give them away.
>Um, Ok. Care to expand. Perhaps this is a bit of that proprietary english you
>mentioned earlier?
I'm a publisher. One of the silly things I do is give people money for
writing things I want written. It's goofy, but we seem to like it.
Not quite sure what you are trying to say here either. Are you trying to make a
>case that this movement can thrive and expand with no one contributing to
>the core?
>That it will do just fine with people using it with no thought of the
>community
>that allowed it in the first place?
It could. Yes.
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