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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2539548" data-attributes="member: 22622">And for every one criminal lawyer who tells you one thing, theres another (and I A. work with lawyers, B have to deal with them on a daily basis for 8 yearss) who can prove the opposite.  IN this world its all about who has more money.  Either way I could care less.  I'm not porting the pdf's of products through the net.  I support programs whom have rich communities whom don't overcharge on the product.  I support programs where I can go to joe blow and ask what he's doing on his script and share what i'm doing on mine.   Thats what my advice was.  DMgenie, and for that matter roleplaying master, are just better programs, cheaper and supported heavily by their communities.  They just don't have big brother wotc backing them which is why I scoffed at pc-gen's recent win at the ennies.  If you think its right for anyone to tell you what you can or can't do with properity you've bought knock yourself's out I don't get into the file sharing debate.  But when I transfer the equivelent of cliffnotes of a book two people own for a program we both have and you advocate breaking down the door there's something morrally worng with that.  The law is very mirky and the Supreme court isn't even touching it yet.  (a solid law would make intelectual properity do things that doesnt sound right with physical properity IE: i can let my brother borrow my shirt, can't let my brother borrow a cd.  ) By the way, I do own e-tools, I said that from the beginning and I do have mosto f the datapacks from last year.  A friend has actually offered a billion times to send me this year's databpack but, taking away how i personally feel about the company, its just not as good as the competition right now.  I'm not a big wotc fan, but they have come out with some good material that I am happy to purchase.  If I like something and its worth it, i'll buy it.  MY personal feelings were decided a few years ago, and it was not something that just came.  It was me, following and thinking codemonkey was pretty gutsy and risky with pcgen and then seeing it shut down. Ok . But to see you guys turn complete turncoats into this fabricated argument wotc has pushed for years because of their high priced lawyers was really upseting.  I stopped using pcgen (got tired of downloading the latest java packages anyway) and looked elsewhere.  And I believe thats when I found dmgenie and roleplaying master and a couple others.  Big communities on other web services which rocked and the company didn't seem to be effected by the big brother mentality.  Someone keeps saying, what is time worth.  If i say my time is worth free, if i'm in this soley so that others won't have to code then I'll do it.  That's a community.  Is it worth making a program and then complicating it so much that only you can come up with the good stuff and sell it for 33% of what the material iti s based off of costs?  Its a personal decision.  For me no.</blockquote>

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