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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8900665" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Eh, that's kind of the point.Zeno: How can you keep doing business with Acme, Inc.? They literally drain the blood of their workers and their workers' children in order to make their smoothies?Achilles: Sure, but their smoothies taste good!The reason some companies are able to provide you with a valuable (and cheap, or free) service is because they do bad things. So no, it's not much of an argument to say, "I know that they do morally indefensible things, but it would be hard for me to care because their stuff is so cheap!"As I have said- I find the OGL stuff (mildly) interesting. I can completely get behind someone like Morrus when he writes that WoTC isn't a trustworthy business partner anymore ... that, I get. It's kind of like way back when I first learned about efficient breaches in contracts- just because you can do something (legally) doesn't make it right. But here's the thing- I remember the industry before the OGL. It was vibrant, and, if anything, more diverse (in terms of systems, not the other diversity). We never needed the OGL. If D&D doesn't want a vibrant professional 3PP community, well, that would suck, but we've been there before. And none of this (none of it) comes close to actual corporate malfeasance that everyone here turns a blind eye to, for the most part.</blockquote>