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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Scythian" data-source="post: 9241712" data-attributes="member: 6875986">You're conflating two things here: the risk inherent in running a business, and the harm caused by a party to a contract acting in bad faith.  Obviously, there is significant risk involved in running your own business, but the major licensees that I'm talking about were companies that were making things work.  We don't know who they were exactly, but based on what we know about the aborted OGL 1.1, they would presumably have been companies with revenue of $750,000 or more.  I'm sure that many, if not all, of those companies had backup plans for various normal contingencies they might expect.  What they didn't expect was that WotC would attempt to unilaterally dissolve an existing legal agreement.And why would they expect that?  It's not like WotC had a history of attempting to renege on contracts or anything, and the OGL had been in use for close to twenty years with no problems.  Why should these people who entered into a good faith agreement with WotC have assumed that WotC would act in bad faith?  Most adults enter into contracts pretty regularly.  Cell phone contracts.  Contracts with utility companies.  Contracts with credit card companies.  Loans.  Leases.  Mortgages.  Gym memberships.  Streaming service subscriptions.  They enter into these contracts in good faith and do not expect the other party to attempt to dissolve the contract on a whim.  I mean, do you have a backup cellphone in case your cellphone provider arbitrarily decides to revoke your contract?  Do you have a plan in case the bank holding your mortgage thinks they can get away with dissolving it?  Do you subscribe to streaming services assuming that they will take your money and not give you any service because they decided they didn't feel like abiding by the terms of their agreement with you anymore?  If not, why should people who entered into this particular agreement have assumed that WotC would attempt to renege on it?I was responding to a post that I saw as drawing a distinction between smaller and larger licensees.</blockquote>

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