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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1825761" data-attributes="member: 812">I just wanted to say that I think of all the people who should feel under seige or attack, Phil and Chuck have gotta be the most inappropriate targets I can imagine. These are two INDIVIDUALS who have contributed as much as any of the big publishers to the d20 world, turning out great materials day in and day out, being gentlemen on these boards and trying their hardest to make d20 + OGL work for all of us.We should be applauding them and their courage to put their ideas out there, follow the license and trust us to deal generously with them. I know my games are better because of them. Go buy a couple of their products. Payday's tomorrow -- I'll be hitting RPGNow myself...In addition, I think it's also true that what Cregorach is trying to do is also laudable and I don't think his project interferes with their efforts to make a living. I doubt we will ever get to a point where people are "SRD-ing" individual PDF products in a wholesale manner -- there's just no incentive to go to the work involved. It's great to have the various SRDs online -- I use them all the time -- heck, I CREATED the Online Modern SRD -- and they're awesome resources that make it EASIER for me to write my own products. Having Phil's entire library online isn't anything like the same thing.I don't think from Cregorach's statements that he's looking for free stuff. Or that he's seeking to put people out of business. He wants to make the hobby healthy, and it sounds to me like he thinks MORE freely available open content will do that. He might be right. None of us know, just like we don't know long-term if publishing OGC PDFs is going to turn out to be a supportable business.But nobody's doing anything EVIL, nobody's taking advantage of anyone else, and nobody seems to be out to get anyone else. Some people's feelings got hurt, which is understandable since this is a big deal to lots of people, and many of us have invested a lot of energy in these issues.But honestly, I think we're all on the same side. We all want more cool stuff.Without making Hong regurgitate.</blockquote>

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