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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4180328" data-attributes="member: 2732"><p>Ironically, I heard they were supposed to do one of these Q&A sessions in the near future--I think I remember something about a podcast. To be fair, they said they weren't releasing the GSL to everybody until June or July, IIRC.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if some of the wording of the questions scared them off. I personally would have re-written the term "poison pill" into something more neutral, since that terminology is (a) is probably not how WoTC sees it and (b) has an accusatory tone to it. (Although that might have slipped through, it looks like the gang worked hard to make it as neutral as possible).</p><p></p><p>Still, they really need to deal with this. I wrote in another thread about the "In Search With Stupidity" book. There was another story about dBase and how the company ended up shooting itself in the foot because their leader decided he was going to war with the ecosystem that developed around dBase. Soon everybody hated Ashton-Tate, xBase was formed, and it was ugly for the guy who was the engineer behind that strategy.</p><p></p><p>While I don't think WoTC is in the same situation yet, and the dBase system is more complex, Wizards have built up an ecosystem with the whole OGL/D20STL and they really need to address it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 4180328, member: 2732"] Ironically, I heard they were supposed to do one of these Q&A sessions in the near future--I think I remember something about a podcast. To be fair, they said they weren't releasing the GSL to everybody until June or July, IIRC. I wonder if some of the wording of the questions scared them off. I personally would have re-written the term "poison pill" into something more neutral, since that terminology is (a) is probably not how WoTC sees it and (b) has an accusatory tone to it. (Although that might have slipped through, it looks like the gang worked hard to make it as neutral as possible). Still, they really need to deal with this. I wrote in another thread about the "In Search With Stupidity" book. There was another story about dBase and how the company ended up shooting itself in the foot because their leader decided he was going to war with the ecosystem that developed around dBase. Soon everybody hated Ashton-Tate, xBase was formed, and it was ugly for the guy who was the engineer behind that strategy. While I don't think WoTC is in the same situation yet, and the dBase system is more complex, Wizards have built up an ecosystem with the whole OGL/D20STL and they really need to address it. [/QUOTE]
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