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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oberton" data-source="post: 421927" data-attributes="member: 153">SAS, D20, OGL and Bill GatesHum, I just don't get the argument about SAS products.  At the various game stores in New Orleans, I have never heard anyone complain about products that don't follow the letter of the d20 core system rules. Most people like to see a little variance in the games.  This gives them ideas and such.  I really think the argument or debate, if you will, is more a designer’s point of view not a consumers.  In the end, all designers must please the consumer and SAS does seem to do this with their products.Also, someone compared d20 to Microsoft earlier in this thread saying they (WOTC -- d20) will dominate the market.  I as a professional software developer have been riding Bill Gates coat tails for sometime and thousands of other developers like me, have no problem with this. In fact we depend on Microsoft to continue to put out great products for us to support and add features onto…  If we did not have a strong company like Microsoft to push product design and etc, we would all still be working on very hard to use machines and paying computer stores tons of cash to configure our machines, no matter what the UNIX crowd wants you to believe ( I am sure that will get a commit)...  Bill has done us a big favor. I believe d20 has done the gaming community a similar favor and there is room within the system, be it d20 or OGL, for everyone to express their design ideas...   Like the developers for Microsoft, the designers of d20 games will eventually dominate the market as long as they continue to produce great products for their system and like software developers, the community of game designers will have to learn to accept this inevitability…Later and Game-ONOberton</blockquote>

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