On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:14:51PM -0800, Clark Peterson wrote:
> > but if
> > enough kids don't like what
> > you're doing in the sandbox and complain to the
> > teacher....
>
> Despite our wish that it were otherwise, none of this
> OGL stuff makes any difference to a significant amount
> of end users. Thus, there is no actual market force
> compelling openness or clarity.
I note that the Skaff Effect predicts that the network effect means
that end users do care; if a given prestige class becomes accepted
across the network of D20 gamers, the status of the publisher of
that prestige class grows to the extent that the publisher is known.
Making it hard to reuse your OGL affects your reputation capital.
--
Bryant Durrell [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell [] 9/11/2001
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