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Oh, I'm well aware of the that situation... I think anyone who is proficient with computers and has friends who are not that ask questions has heard responses like that. :) But that brings up the point, just by copying fonts over, something happened. But who is at fault and who takes...

Yes, I believe thats the crux of the matter, although I do believe its still a problem with the OGL rather than PCGen itself. However, there are ways around the problem PCGen or others like it may face. Simply release the data and any code, properly bundled in scripting or plug-in form, that...

Well, I don't pay much attention to the d20 license, as I'd never distribute anything under it. Its too restrictive, and 'sides, I have yet to see any reason to need the "d20 logo". In the people I've run across in Chicago, outside of my regular gamers, that have some insterest in...

<laughs> Fair enough... and wouldn't have it any other way! :) Ok, thanks... to me, thats a huge difference over straight d20 from D&D. Yes, I can actually understand that. And I will say that my players felt the same way. However, because WEG d6 had templates, which are in some ways...

Yes, but all the customer service rep has to ask is this: "Did you install any 3rd party additions to the program?" If the answer is yes, then the rep says "I am sorry, I can only help you with the standard program." Go buy a copy of Q3 or UT/UT2003 and create a small mod that totally hoses...

Here we go: :) If your application is licensed under GPL or compatible OSI license approved by MySQL AB, you are free and welcome to ship any GPL software of MySQL AB with your application. By "application" we mean any type of software application, system, tool or utility. --...

Smart move actually. I recently ran across a very large-scale [or so they hope] enterprise app that I sat in on technical briefs as a tech advisor for. The developer had placed all business logic in the stored procedures. Well, even with an enterprise database like Oracle, the language...

Yes, true. Yes, there would be problems and the blame would be on the publisher/developer, and incorrectly. Most EULAs state that they essentially will not support any "hacks", i.e. 3rd party tinkering. So customer service would just politely ignore the service request. Sure, no one is...

Yeah, no particularly sure myself. However, I was just going by their Licensing agreement on the MySql homepage.

Up to a point, I agree. The rules work much better for D&D than previous versions did, IMO, although there will always be perceived short-comings in the game. Well I consider myself a moderate, as I've ha played many variety of role-playing games from D&D to Amber to StoryTeller, et al. But...

Maybe... :) Sure, I suppose that works. As long as the core team develops the software via standard industry engineering principles. And that any "fixes" from outside the core team are scrutinized before being applied to make sure that they are appropriate. There are open-source examples of...

I tried the Fellowship of the Ring demo for a laugh... a complete joke. The demo's graphics were a total wreck on my machine [P4 2.0ghz, 512Mg 800mhz RDRAM, GeForce Ti4600, WinXP, bleah, bleah, with all latest drivers, etc.. and even this machine is getting long in the tooth for my tastes :) ]...

I don't disagree with you here. I'm in the opinion that they did not deliver said product. With the proliferation of computers and the access to webpage scripting, Java and its free compilers, and other such free or very cheap compilers for different languages, its fairly easy for anyone to...

Yes, Ryan had a great idea in the "Open Gaming System" (OGS). However, much like eTools, the implementation hasn't been really all that great aside from all the actual effort needed to strip the game system of the relavent IP. D20 was and is simply the wrong system to have led the OGS fight...

True. They can also say "release whatever you have now, we don't want to wait, we don't care if its done, or how many bugs it has". Not really. Use of an Access database means that there are quite a few, more than you probably think, that can get into the guts of it. What was lacking...

Well, scripting systems don't necessarily need to be pre-compiled. Usually they are faster that way, but may not be as flexible. The client-side java/vbscript in browsers or ASP/PHP are examples of interpreted scripting [for benefit of non-technical people ;)] whereas JSP [its similiar to...

Bioware managed it. :) However, they went through an engineering process that covered several years and determined exactly what they could and couldn't do, i.e. only the basic portions of the Core Rules are available.

"Hard-coding" and "scripting" without context are bad terms. "Scripting" is not any different than "hard-coding" EXCEPT that the "code" is available to the end-user, sometimes but not always, to be changed outside of closed system and is either interpreted at run-time or pre-compiled...