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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 1585625" data-attributes="member: 3003">OK just so you get history straight, this paragraph has nothing whatsoever to do with the truth. Apple lost because they wouldn't let anybody else make hardware which sported their OS. Microsoft was never a hardware vendor. By the time Apple did try to allow clones, the battle was already decided because Microsoft finaly came out with a viable alternative. Had Apple allowed cloning before Windows 95, they may well have won. It's a moot point now. Oh, and for the argument that Open Software was necessary to the Internet, well that's bunk as well. Open standards are necessary, sure. That has nothing to do with open source software. They are completely different beasts. The internet was around way before the open source movement. Even the web was popularized using closed source software. Heck the most popular browser today is still IE, and it's certainly closed source. Now as for OGL and Gygax, well I tend to like the OGL. I enjoy the variety of stuff available due to it. I also don't see why people end up with such a beef about the large amount of stuff coming out for D20. Truthfully, the mechanics of a game really don't matter all that much (as in the core mechanics of D20 vs. DC) when you are flexible about it. Looking at the contrast between Mutants and Masterminds and D20 Call of Cthulu, could anyone really make an argument that D20 isn't flexible?Calling him a dinosaur, however, does go a bit over the line. He was a pioneer and created a hobby which I am devoted to. I may not agree with him on this issue, but there's no need to disparage his opinion. buzzard</blockquote>

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