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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1499538" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>Again, this condition will be true regardless of how 4E is licensed. Currently 3E is licensed via the OGL, which makes things difficult to some degree -- as this thread attests. There's nothing to suggest that the licensing chosen for 4E -- whatever it will be -- will make things MORE difficult. Indeed, a license that (for example) requires payment or WotC approval might improve things. Nobody knows, at this stage.</p><p></p><p>Assumptions are a bad way to plan for the future. If your business plan includes statements like, "We hope people will pay us because they're nice," you should accept that your business model is high risk.</p><p></p><p>And high risk business models rarely produce healthy industries. I'd much rather see the RPG industry based on lower-risk, more sustainable business models. I think that releasing OGC can produce such models -- but publishers have to consider how the OGL will affect their business. THAT will produce a healthy industry.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, that's the problem. And I think something that's happening here is that I'm arguing from the "principle" point of view, looking to derive specific cases from that, whereas you're starting with a specific case and building a principle upon that.</p><p></p><p>That is, I'm saying, "It's always okay to post OGC," and thereby concluding that any instance of posting OGC is good, while you're saying, "This kind of posting is bad," and thereby concluding that it's not always okay. If you see what I mean.</p><p></p><p>The fact that we both agree whole-heartedly with everything Joe B. is saying suggests to me maybe our positions aren't as far apart as the number of posts in this thread indicates. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1499538, member: 812"] Again, this condition will be true regardless of how 4E is licensed. Currently 3E is licensed via the OGL, which makes things difficult to some degree -- as this thread attests. There's nothing to suggest that the licensing chosen for 4E -- whatever it will be -- will make things MORE difficult. Indeed, a license that (for example) requires payment or WotC approval might improve things. Nobody knows, at this stage. Assumptions are a bad way to plan for the future. If your business plan includes statements like, "We hope people will pay us because they're nice," you should accept that your business model is high risk. And high risk business models rarely produce healthy industries. I'd much rather see the RPG industry based on lower-risk, more sustainable business models. I think that releasing OGC can produce such models -- but publishers have to consider how the OGL will affect their business. THAT will produce a healthy industry. Yeah, that's the problem. And I think something that's happening here is that I'm arguing from the "principle" point of view, looking to derive specific cases from that, whereas you're starting with a specific case and building a principle upon that. That is, I'm saying, "It's always okay to post OGC," and thereby concluding that any instance of posting OGC is good, while you're saying, "This kind of posting is bad," and thereby concluding that it's not always okay. If you see what I mean. The fact that we both agree whole-heartedly with everything Joe B. is saying suggests to me maybe our positions aren't as far apart as the number of posts in this thread indicates. :D [/QUOTE]
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