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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4041754" data-attributes="member: 1054"><p>Hard to justify when on-the-record statements from the people who made the OGL say just the opposite. They not only knew the consequences, they INTENDED them. Now, the current administration might not like this, but let us not toss around phrases like "exploiting loopholes", as if something sleazy and underhanded was going on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Contracts are how we exist in a peaceful, mutually productive society. Allowing the unilateral breaking of one because it no longer seems as good a deal now as it did then is a recipe for first chaos, then totalitarianism.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, what you're saying is, people who take someone else at their word that they mean what they say are evil/wrong/selfish...and people who say one thing, but later claim they 'didn't really mean it' are good/noble/virtuous.</p><p></p><p>Riiiiiight.</p><p></p><p>If I hand over a notarized form authorizing you to hit me in the face, and you do so, and then I sue you because "I didn't think it would hurt!", which of us is in the wrong?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Since there's an awful lot of material in True 20 and M&M copied verbatim from the SRD (as it was supposed to be), I have a hard time sympathizing. I would rather vent my wrath at people who scan books and upload them to file sharing services, than those who follow the letter of the law and go to the trouble of manually extracting and editing the Open Gaming Content. A major POINT of the OGL was to allow for the *re-use* of good rules; this is made easier by having the rules portion available in ASCII form. Extracting OGL is not a loophole or an exploit; it is using the contract AS INTENDED.</p><p></p><p>The GSL, whatever form it takes, clearly isn't intended to be used that way, so those who try to do so will be exploiting/breaking the law. I also think it will lead to much poorer third party support for 4e, and lower profits for WOTC, as it means fewer people will be staying in the D20 gamespace. Someone playing True 20 can extract value from a WOTC product much, much, more easily than someone playing GURPS can. WOTC has a vested interest in keeping people in the d20 space, and encouraging competitors to devote their creative efforts to supporting D20, not making their own games and pulling customers out of that space. They obviously disagree with this; time will show who is right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4041754, member: 1054"] Hard to justify when on-the-record statements from the people who made the OGL say just the opposite. They not only knew the consequences, they INTENDED them. Now, the current administration might not like this, but let us not toss around phrases like "exploiting loopholes", as if something sleazy and underhanded was going on. Contracts are how we exist in a peaceful, mutually productive society. Allowing the unilateral breaking of one because it no longer seems as good a deal now as it did then is a recipe for first chaos, then totalitarianism. So, what you're saying is, people who take someone else at their word that they mean what they say are evil/wrong/selfish...and people who say one thing, but later claim they 'didn't really mean it' are good/noble/virtuous. Riiiiiight. If I hand over a notarized form authorizing you to hit me in the face, and you do so, and then I sue you because "I didn't think it would hurt!", which of us is in the wrong? Since there's an awful lot of material in True 20 and M&M copied verbatim from the SRD (as it was supposed to be), I have a hard time sympathizing. I would rather vent my wrath at people who scan books and upload them to file sharing services, than those who follow the letter of the law and go to the trouble of manually extracting and editing the Open Gaming Content. A major POINT of the OGL was to allow for the *re-use* of good rules; this is made easier by having the rules portion available in ASCII form. Extracting OGL is not a loophole or an exploit; it is using the contract AS INTENDED. The GSL, whatever form it takes, clearly isn't intended to be used that way, so those who try to do so will be exploiting/breaking the law. I also think it will lead to much poorer third party support for 4e, and lower profits for WOTC, as it means fewer people will be staying in the D20 gamespace. Someone playing True 20 can extract value from a WOTC product much, much, more easily than someone playing GURPS can. WOTC has a vested interest in keeping people in the d20 space, and encouraging competitors to devote their creative efforts to supporting D20, not making their own games and pulling customers out of that space. They obviously disagree with this; time will show who is right. [/QUOTE]
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