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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 1824714" data-attributes="member: 4275">You really need to read some of Cergorach's posts again, retribution was sure his point, when asked how he would feel if offering OGC for free would lead to publishers crippling that OGC he said "that would just make me go to the trouble to uncripple it and offer it for free within days of release".My point is, publishers offer so much of their products for free as a courtesy. If that courtesy is abused by people claiming "we're not breaking the rules" by offering 90% of a book for free publishers will need to do something to protect their work.Again we're not talking about people (by and large) who are regurgitating the work of others but people doing a lot of research and rules-smithing to create NEW crunch. And when we take steps to protect our work, we can also say "we're not breaking the rules". Again using one of my own books as an example instead of speaking for others, Blood and Guts involved about 200+ hours of research for its crunch. If someone wants to base new rules off that work, THAT is the point of the license and I heartily commend them. If they just want to take my work and regurgitate it, what am I supposed to do?Chuck</blockquote>