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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6370251" data-attributes="member: 16760">There's nothing wrong with ponies at all.  There's lots of problems wishing for ponies when your parents can't afford one and you have no conception of what it will take to take care of one.My post had no reference to Ryan Dancey at all.  It dealt with simple economic common sense.If you perceived me to be speaking proudly or dogmatically, your perception is in error.  I was speaking from the point of view of someone who runs a business.  It is a business vastly smaller than WotC, to be sure, but still gives one a certain perspective.I already said I'd be glad to see some of your ideas Kickstarted.  Just so long as you are prepared to see some of them, at best, fail to get funded.I don't see anyone censoring you.  I see people criticizing your ideas and you gratuitously insulting them in return.That makes things a tad more realistic, yes.  You want a relatively inexpensive pony and will recruit your friends to help take care of it.Know what Tesla Motors didn't do?  They didn't say you could drive last year's model off the lot for free.Yes, they licensed out their game mechanics, which can't be copyrighted.  It was a clever and generous move.They did not put out their intellectual property with an open license, as that would have been suicidal.And you're going far beyond suggesting that they license out their IP... you're suggesting putting it in the *public domain*.  I'm not a lawyer, but I don't have to be to see that those are staggeringly different things.  If you don't see the difference, I really don't know what else to say to you.'In the same way'?  One of these things is not like the others.  What mechanism are you suggesting for the release of a product they currently sell at a modest clip into the public domain to increase sales of their current corebooks?Dude.  Dial it down, will you?  You seem to have this mental image of yourself as this bold innovator and everyone else as obscurantist cranks who don't appreciate your genius, or else corporate tools who mindlessly spout the WotC line.Maybe people just, you know, disagree with you?  Maybe they give actual reasons for their disagreement?  Maybe you should address those actual reasons instead of speculating about their inner mental life?</blockquote>

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