Interesting Article about WOTC on salon.com
http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/23/wizards/index.html?pn=1
Death to the Minotaur
“How Wizards of the Coast sacrificed its geeky, Gothic, sex-for-all idealism for Pokémon-size profits and Magic moola. First of two parts. — By John Tynes”
Part Two is here.