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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2801684" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Note that Mr. Mearls does not say they have no right or perogative to engage in this activity. He merely says that when grouped together their choices have repercussions and consequences. Is this somehow a new idea, that going after profit may have consequences?</p><p></p><p>Nor does Mr. Mearls say there is no innovation going on at all. Seems to me that what he's saying boils down to this - if all those folks making small pdfs were to instead contribute to the pool of free material that we can all hash over for free, we'd have more innovation overall.</p><p></p><p>What Mr. Mearls misses is that the gaming community lacks something that the software open source community usually has - organization and editors who know what they're doing. You can't just dump all the content in the world onto message boards and wikis and expect the gamers to suddenly be able to find all the good bits. The content has to be edited, organized and compiled into a useful form for the end users.</p><p></p><p>So, rather than asking Mr. Mearls if he wants to offer his own designs for free, perhaps we should be asking him if he wants to be the d20/OGC version of Linus Torvalds? I don't know about his organizational and management skills, but he's got the systems knowledge and design knowhow to head an editorial board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 2801684, member: 177"] Note that Mr. Mearls does not say they have no right or perogative to engage in this activity. He merely says that when grouped together their choices have repercussions and consequences. Is this somehow a new idea, that going after profit may have consequences? Nor does Mr. Mearls say there is no innovation going on at all. Seems to me that what he's saying boils down to this - if all those folks making small pdfs were to instead contribute to the pool of free material that we can all hash over for free, we'd have more innovation overall. What Mr. Mearls misses is that the gaming community lacks something that the software open source community usually has - organization and editors who know what they're doing. You can't just dump all the content in the world onto message boards and wikis and expect the gamers to suddenly be able to find all the good bits. The content has to be edited, organized and compiled into a useful form for the end users. So, rather than asking Mr. Mearls if he wants to offer his own designs for free, perhaps we should be asking him if he wants to be the d20/OGC version of Linus Torvalds? I don't know about his organizational and management skills, but he's got the systems knowledge and design knowhow to head an editorial board. [/QUOTE]
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