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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1492764" data-attributes="member: 10201">That's easy. OGC is good because other companies can build on it and improve it, and/or focus on what they're good at, rather than having to re-invent the wheel (or build wheels just so that they have a vehicle for their nifty new steering mechanism, to butcher the analogy). Therefore, the more that publishers actually build on one anothers' content, the better, in the long run, the game products, and therefore the game, for the consumer. Therefore, you should encourage the publishers to have much OGC, so that there is material to freely build upon. Therefore, you should prefer books that have not only good material, but good OGC. It's in your own self-interest as a consumer: more OGC now means better RPG books in the future.What about the person who has a Cool New Idea which is a superset of someone else's Cool New Idea? IOW, what if you have a geniunely innovative contribution to make, but doing so would involve duplicating all (or nearly all) of someone else's product?No, they shouldn't complain about getting a speeding ticket. They should complain that the speed limit is too low on that road, or demand the enaction of graduated licenses so that better drivers can go faster legally. Or accept the speed limit, and the ticket.I've got no sympathy for anyone who breaks the law, gets caught, and whines about it. I frequently speed [on the job--there is no need for me to speed the rest of the time]. The consequences, should i get caught, are far more severe than for most anyone else (a <5mph-over ticket would cost me roughly $1000, because i drive for a living). Sure, i'll avail myself of legal remedies, should i get a ticket (pleading it down a notch, if i can), but i'm not gonna complain because i got caught doing something i knew i shouldn't've. I have very little respect for the people who race around, and then slow down the minute a cop comes into view: if you believe that you can safely drive faster than the speed limit, have the courage of your convictions and challenge the law: take it to court, push for legislation to change it, or lobby for a change in public opinion. If you don't believe that you can safely drive at that speed, then don't do it. And, whichever you do, accept the consequences. Not just speeding tickets, but accidents and injuries. I've got a real problem with people who complain about "speed traps". Were you speeding? Did you know it? Then you earned the ticket--the cops had nothing to do with it.Likewise, don't complain because people reuse content according to a license you've voluntarily released yoru work under. You shouldn't be stupid--if people are killing you because of it, change how you use the license (such as making less of your book OGC, as one poster suggested). And, likewise, the reuser should consider consequences (such as providing an incentive to decrease the amount of OGC in future works). Reasonable? Yes. It's supposed to be "open". Sensible? Maybe, maybe not--Grey Ghost managed to get off the ground by publishing a relatively no-frills hardcopy edition of a ruleset that had been available for free for years, and remains available for free to this day. It is not at all clear-cut that free access to the content inherently destroys sales of a book version of the content.</blockquote>

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