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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9241503" data-attributes="member: 7034611">maybe I could, but I am not really interested in rehashing the OGL drama and derailing this thread, so I am not sure I should / want to <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In broad strokes1) I believe WotC benefited quite a bit from the OGL2) I do not think that they can legally revoke it, their argument for that was barely enough to not be laughed out of the room when they showed up with version 1.13) they tried to bully/ strongarm everyone into signing on to 1.14) the fact that they failed despite their size shows how awful that deal really was. No one could afford to, even at the risk of being bankrupted in dragged out court proceedings5) the only thing that prevented a catastrophe was the public stepping in, without that the 3pps would have diedSo WotC is not getting any praise from me for how they handled it. The SRD in CC became a requirement to keep any 3pps, because no one trusted the OGL / WotC any moreI do not see this as WotC renegotiating what they considered to be a bad deal in a fair, legal, and respectful manner, the way [USER=6879661]@TheSword[/USER] is painting it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 9241503, member: 7034611"] maybe I could, but I am not really interested in rehashing the OGL drama and derailing this thread, so I am not sure I should / want to ;) In broad strokes 1) I believe WotC benefited quite a bit from the OGL 2) I do not think that they can legally revoke it, their argument for that was barely enough to not be laughed out of the room when they showed up with version 1.1 3) they tried to bully/ strongarm everyone into signing on to 1.1 4) the fact that they failed despite their size shows how awful that deal really was. No one could afford to, even at the risk of being bankrupted in dragged out court proceedings 5) the only thing that prevented a catastrophe was the public stepping in, without that the 3pps would have died So WotC is not getting any praise from me for how they handled it. The SRD in CC became a requirement to keep any 3pps, because no one trusted the OGL / WotC any more I do not see this as WotC renegotiating what they considered to be a bad deal in a fair, legal, and respectful manner, the way [USER=6879661]@TheSword[/USER] is painting it. [/QUOTE]

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