>I have no probelm with other OG publishers BUYing my OG releases and then
>using the OG material from them in their own works. I do have a problem
with
>those that want to make that material available for free to fans and
thereby
>take away the economic incentive to do OG books at all. I think it is
>destructive to the OG publisher community to put up such materials in a
>venue where fans can get it for free. Will this happen anyway, yes probably
>so, but the logic of having any of us supporting such an endeavor that
would
>give away our materials for free - escapes me.
I apologize for my "not playing by the rules" comment. It was an unfair
statement.
Still, I don't believe that anybody is asking for you to give anything away
which you haven't already decided to give away. By making some part of your
product "Open" it is open. If you didn't want it to be open then it should
have remained closed. Complaining about how somebody decides to use
something that you declared as open yourself seems a little strange. It's
like saying "This is open, I just don't want people to actually use it
unless they buy MY book".
As for incentives for buying your product, how about having a product worth
buying? That Creature Compendium is a very nice hardback with illustrations
and other cool bits that you WON'T get in a text file that lists the OGC
from that book. That should be reason enough for people to buy it.
I'm not knocking anybody for wanting to make a profit. That makes sense -
we'd all like to do it.
- Jay
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