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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msd" data-source="post: 1592941" data-attributes="member: 19974">In my mind, this is where the critical miss is... I see the art packs as part of the functionality of the software just as in the same way that I consider the various fonts that come with Word to be part of the functionality of the software.  While I appreciate that reasonable minds can disagree on this point and probably will, I still simply fail to see how this limitation offers them any "protection" of their IP. In my mind, their entire argument rests on a single, flawed assumption which is that map producers and map consumers are the same thing - effectively interchangeable parts.  In my experience, that's simply not true.  WoTC's map of the week is popular because people don't want to be bothered with making maps.  They simply want to be able to have the map without caring whether it was made in CC2, PSP, Dundjinni, etc.  For Fluid to see this type of consumer as a potential lost sale is to confuse map consumer with map producer.  In reality, consumers were likely not to be customers in the first place so the limitation doesn't help avoid lost sales at all.  It merely inhibits sales to people who would be map producers and Fluid customers but who won't purchase as a result of the limitation on re-distribution. It's as if I walk into a store that sells musical instruments and, after buying a guitar, the salesman tells me that I can't record and sell music commercially because every CD sale represents a potential lost sale of a guitar... Again, ymmv and probably does... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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