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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1486467" data-attributes="member: 725">Andy, WotC modeled the OGL after the GPL, most GPL products are available for 'free'. So, please don't start about the spirit of things, WotC saw a business opertunity in Open Source, these are the consequences...Now, i try my best to ensure that the product gets a good six months run before the OGC is released from the product, this should cover around 85% of the initial sales. We could have legally released the OGC parts within a day of it's release, we didn't, we don't really want to alienate a publisher (the hand that feeds us OGC).Actually i'm bussy with the OGC from Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous, great stuff, still working on the 3.5 conversion for it. As for Malhavoc, getting there, it's just that some of the older products from Malhavoc have a ***** of an OGC designation and it takes a while digging true there. You should see a release of OGC in the next few months...It's not about screwing publishers, it's about the 'spirit' of Open Source. First you make sure what's Open is available for easy access (text files online), second it's about building a better product from that Open Content, third it's about filling the holes that the available Open Content doesn't cover and see what you can do better.I personally think that releasing OGC online after a certain period of time (six months to a year) might give a product a new influx of potential buyers. Come on, a 224 page full color, hardcover book for only $35 or $24.50 from Amazon.com is a steal. If people are really going to use a lot of material from the book, i'm sure they'll buy it and not mess around with a pile of b&w printouts.</blockquote>

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