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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nothing to see here" data-source="post: 4308906" data-attributes="member: 16432">I read it differenty.  It's not a question of competing.  It's a question of ensuring that 4e concepts do not become completely unregulaged OGL-style open-content.  Standard IP law will dictate what concepts White Wolf and Wizards can or cannot use in common -- that's the way it's always been and the GSL does not need to address that.  The OGL is a special case.Listen...I will fully accept and understand that someone with a philosophical attachment to open-systems theory will be peeved at this as a step back.  The OGL was revolutionary, though, considering that the commerical benefits of open-systems are not proven, that's not necessarily a good thing.You can hate the GSL on philosophical grounds.  But it is hyperbolic to assume that, because of that opposition, that there is no viable models for third party publishers, or that the entire motive behidn the GSL is some sort of nefarious scheme.</blockquote>