Hi,
I must jump to Newt Newports'd defence here. Newt has done everything above board with Mongoose for the D101 games. OpenQuest is only aspect of the D101 company, Newt supports several systems and licences his products with several companies. All perfectly legally.
Newt has been a huge supporter of Glorantha, Runequest and BRP and has done much to promote Roleplaying in the UK. He is a friend of Moon Design, Mongoose and Greg Stafford.
His company is very small, not some global monster (I do wish people would stop beleiving in vast RPG empires these days, there are so few RPG megacorporations LOL) and he makes virtually no profit, ploughing his funds into producing more fun products.
OpenQuest is a very elegant adaptation of the RuneQuest OGL with lots of rule adaptations and developments. It uses its own settings, which are not simply Gloranthan rip offs, but all great fun. It owes much to RQ1 and BRP, and the games of yesteryear in some respects, but is also well thought out and most of all fun.
All Gloranthan licences are the property of Greg Stafford, he worked with Mongoose to develop the fantastic second age setting, but retains the rights to Third Age Glorantha, which he licences to Moon Design. Our products are so rules light that they are perfect resources for MRQ2, OpenQuest, BRP or any other game you fancy, the most recent products and our future products, Sartar:Kingdom of Heroes, the Sartar Companion and the forthcoming Whitewall and Pavis books will be packed with accessible information. For example in the Companion we have several scenarios based on Apple Lane, the Haunted Ruins and appearances from old friends like Gringle, Londra of Londros and Joh Mith. Balazar, SPH and other setting will see new light one day, we are just endeavouring to bring out the best books we can.
Finally to go back to my original point, Newt is not a profiteer, he is a patron of artists, writers and gamers.
Simon