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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Admiral Caine" data-source="post: 4313135" data-attributes="member: 60438">Sigurd,This is a subjective question that can't be answered in absolutes.I still maintain it's unfair to consumers. Other posters can easily spend all day explaining why they think it's not. The problem is the definition of fair, itself, is highly subjective.The position that just because the GSL offers less choices than the OGL does not make it unfair.. is defendable. Defined in absolutes of what is legal and what is illegal, I can understand someone saying it is fair.I don't think it is. As a consumer I feel harmed by the fact that there is potentially less chance of superior products being produced for 4E, due to lack of healthy industry competition. My position is that I want choice, and the natural increase in quality that comes with it. Sounds unfair to me.But I'm not required to buy 4E, or anything that I don't like. That's the counter-argument of why it is fair.To paraphrase Pontius Pilate, "What is fair?"Consider that many legal arguments and decisions fall under the definition of "perception by a reasonable standard." You will notice that WOTC puts in the GSL specific clauses that some parts of the license (like the definition of "what is a product line") as being firmly under their interpretation. Leaving no room for someone to sneak a "reasonable standard" in there any where. They nipped that right in the bud.What is fair, and what is allowed under law, are two different things. And fairness itself, is a subjective term.EDIT: I took some unnecessary snark out my original post. If you saw it and were bothered by it, my apologies.</blockquote>

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