> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rogers
> Cadenhead
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] I'm Game
>
>
> At 04:15 PM 4/17/2001 -0400, "Martin L. Shoemaker"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >No disagreement here. But I have lately seen a host of messages that
> >impugned the motives of anyone who might actually make money at this.
>
> What messages? When people challenge a particular strategy for dividing
> product identity and open content, it doesn't necessarily follow that they
> believe
> any use of product identity is bad.
I don't want to dredge up issues by digging out old messages; but there were
word choices that implied a moral or ethical superiority of free works over
the commercial D20 works. As far as I can judge by their posts here and the
quality of their products, the commercial producers have proven to be fine,
upstanding citizens of the Community.
> I hope products like the Creature Collection succeed. I just think it
would be
> more of a success if some of the monsters were fully open content. I feel
the
> same way about all of the D20 products -- I'm extremely impressed with the
> decision to designate Freeport as open content.
And you may be right. I'm not asserting that you're wrong. I believe you
are, but have nothing to back up the belief. So I'm more than willing to let
the market perform experiments and we'll learn which model works. Then we'll
all be acting on more than just belief.
Martin L. Shoemaker
Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training
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http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com
http://www.UMLBootCamp.com
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