From: "Tim Dugger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 1 Oct 00, kevin scribbled a note about Re: [Open_Gaming]
> discussing an Ope:
> > If you agree that open material is more valuable than closed, then
> > I don't see any benefit to keeping your world closed.
>
> The benefit of keeping a world closed is in maintaining a coherent
> geography, politcal situation, racial make-up, history, etc....
Right, but is that benefit more valuable to the users? It seems to me
that the right to use, copy, modify and distribute the material is
more valuable to users than the benefit of a single, consistent
storyline that can not be modified and shared.
An advantage to the open model is that Maggie or any other creator can
still have their own consistent storyline, and if that is what users
want, then it is there for them. But the users are not limited to that
single storyline, and users are empowered to change what they don't
like and share their improvements.
-kenan
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