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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mynex" data-source="post: 105428" data-attributes="member: 2136">Re: Re: Re: Re: Is Software next?Yes, yes they can force the issue by telling us to remove all non-SRD stuff, and I expect eventually they probably will, TSR/WotC have a bad habit of pissing off the public, but like sheep, we keep going back.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Regardless, they can force us to convert our list files to ONLY SRD stuff, and that's fine, it's sort of expected at some point.  They only shoot themselves in the foot (is this really a surprise to anyone?) again.But, if someone at TSR/WotC thinks about it a minute (hell, even 10 seconds), they'll realize it's futile to do so.Why?Because the genie is literally out of the bottle...  Yea sure, PCGen will continue to evolve, add other d20 publishers, expand functionality, etc... but the list files for the existing WotC files are already out there.  Someone would undoubtedly make the older, previously released list files avaiable somewhere, someone would undoubtedly update said list files and release them them somewhere.  And everytime TSR/WotC went after that person, they would close shop and someone else would open up.  It would become like the warez scene, and that's just ugly and bad publicity for TSR/WotC.TSR/WotC would actually be better off working WITH every 3rd party program out there.  Maybe set up a 'Software Consortium' With 3rd party software creators, WotC one corner, Free Software another, Open Source Another, and Pay software the last...  Get together with the predominant forces as they exist now and work out some standards that everyone can live/work with.But I don't expect that to happen either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  TSR/WotC has demonstrated entirely too much stupidity over the years, and their sometimes, mindless Microsoft style strategies, have jaded many people into trusting them without reservation.*shrug*  either they'll go after people or they won't, either they'll work with people or they won't, either they'll learn from the past or they won't, but whatever they do, they will probably make a hash of it.</blockquote>

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