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I like your optimism. But DMsGuild may be the proof in the pudding as to why they have not opened it up. Gary and I always thought their recalcitrance in the matter was that they were now in control of the apparatus and would not re-surrender it to us, so to speak. I also get that feeling from others over the years but have never gotten that from Paizo. There was true respect there; and it was mutual.
IMHO you can see a similar trend with the DragonLance setting.
When they did try to reboot it - once the author they hired found out that Hickman and Weis were not on board - he bailed...
Hickman And Weis got a license from WOTC for their new book series. Which was a move entirely instigated by them.
I would be very surprised if a DL setting book was put out by WOTC even if the new DL book trilogy sells like hotcakes...