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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 1824660" data-attributes="member: 4275">If I can summarize some of the basic themes of this thread as I have seen them, this is what I am hearing:1. If you release a book 100% OGC you "deserve" to have that content offered freely since you "made your bed and should lie in it". The people seeking free distribution argue that what they're doing is legal so don't feel bad when they do it. BUT2. If you cripple your OGC (make it harder to use in its entirety so that you might continue to sell your products that you sunk a lot of time and money into) customers will stop buying your products.This is also legal under the OGC (most companies make far more of their material open than they have to and try not to cripple it). However, some involved in this thread have basically said they would "punish" writers for taking this course by either not buying their products or (in Cergorach's case) *actively* punishing them by stepping up efforts to provide whole products for free within days of release.One writers conclusion:Nice little catch 22 you guys have us in. If we ask you to not put 90% of a book out for free you cry that we're not playing fair, but then tell us not to try and protect our work within the rules of the license. What I think people are missing is, that when most of us use OGC we're not just taking whole chunks of material and offering it under a different name, we're making alot of new rules of our own based on OGC. In other words, when people say we want the OGC all to ourselves, using material but not wanting our material used in turn, I say hogwash. Blood and Fists contained no reprinted SRD material, even though it was based on the SRD. It instead made new rules (which happen to be OGC). So I spent a lot of time and research making new rules, and people equate taking those rules and offering them for free as being equivalent to the fact that I based 70 pages of new material on the rules of the SRD?Chuck</blockquote>

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