On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Greg Benage wrote:
> "John Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can anyone answer this? I think this is important. If OGC is never
> > actually used, then its theoretical openness is irrelevant.
>
> I don't think this is a good test of the "openness" of any given
> source of OGC. There are a couple major reasons, in my experience, why
> third-party publishers aren't using more OGC from other publishers.
Well, as I said, this is a *practical* test of openness.
If a product is theoretically open but no one uses the OGC for third-
party products, then its openness simply doesn't matter.
I will have to check out what I can see of the Arcanis
worldbook from Paradigm and Faust's stuff and see about their
re-use of OGC.
Suppose we had a worst case that no one is using non-SRD,
non-in-house OGC for products. In that case, those who were "really"
open could maybe pat themselves on the back -- but open gaming as a
whole would be basically a failed concept. Instead of actual open
development (as in software open source), we would simply have a
freely licensed system like FUDGE or Fuzion.
- John
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