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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 2639244" data-attributes="member: 2855">See, now that is part of the whole problem. You are looking at an SRD as "game support". Companies are seeing it as "free access to what I am trying to sell you", especially those companies that tend to make their products 100% OGC.SRD's were never meant to be treated as game support. Such documents are meant for other publishers to use in creating new content, not as a free version of a product.And nobody can share a book?It is comments like this last one that really galvanizes publishers against free distribution of their works (via an SRD or an OGC Repository, etc..). The "I don't want to pay for it, so you should give it to me for free" mentality.Now, if companies did begin doing their own SRDs, do you know what would happen? That company would not ever do a product that was 100% OGC ever again. In fact, they would most likely release only the bare minimum into OGC (which would be effectively worthless as it would be the most minimal stat block that could be gotten away with, and not even the name of the (whatever it was) would be open content.Not only that, but you would see a drastic reduction in release schedules. It takes time and effort to go through a manuscript and to pull out the open content. Time and effort that would otherwise be spent on other products. And once release schedules dropped, so would profits, and then you would see these companies go out of business.The folks that work at game companies (operative word being "company") want their company to make a profit so that they can do such exotic things as buy groceries and pay their rent.  I don't know if you meant to have your post put across a certain attitude or not, and if you didn't, then I apologize, but the impression that I received in the last part of your post was that the game company "owed" you a bunch of free support. And the comment about going and finding a "pirated" copy? I am not gonna comment on that  simply because every time I tried, I ended up lashing out in a manner that would likely get me banned, it got me riled up that much.Any way you look at it, it was not a very nice thing to say.</blockquote>

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