True, you can.. however, only a relatively small fraction of the public will do so. Even if you download Linux for free, you still are paying a price one way or another, either by secondary cost of connect time costs, media costs for burning it to CD, or just the cost of social embarassment for using it <grin> Most will buy something off the shelf that is boxed and prettied up nicely. Much like they will buy nice pretty adventures, etc for d20, or Core Rule books instead of using the SRD. And this is good... People should be buying this stuff and promoting the businesses, both large and small.
My point being again that WotC/Hasbro is a business and as a business, makes decisions based on the bottom line, instead of some feel good, free for all feeling. This is a point that people seem to miss regardless of the topic of conversation, be it MindFlayers or the Open Gaming movement in general. There seems to be a persistant number of folks who see WotC/Hasbro as being 'evil' simply because they want to protect their investment/ideas/concepts.. There seem to be a few people who think that the licenses are too restrictive, etc. For some reason they can't seem to grasp the basic idea that the SRD/OGL is a skeletal framework that has restrictions, much like Linux is a skeletal OS which has its own distribution restrictions.. Yes, both are viable to build on, and yes, both can be used as stand alone items. And someday, if 4E ever happens and makes 3E obsolete, both will have a following that exists in that neat, narrow 5-7% market share. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Gladwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] OGL > On Tuesday 22 Jan 2002 5:28 pm, Rob Lowry wrote: > > Sure, Linux isn't entirely free > > Actually you can obtain most distributions of Linux 100% free. So it is > entirely free, in all senses of the word. > > -- > Ricardo Gladwell > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a > little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > - Benjamin Franklin > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l > _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
