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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4427332" data-attributes="member: 52839">I suppose that is possible, but it's not WOTC's style, and yes it could happen in the future, after realigning the planets and calling on Samhain, but its another one of those things that would cause any court to cry foul. But granted, in a very worst-case scenario, if courts were all about supporting the licenser and screwing the licensee at every opportunity, it's possible. I'll call it a big "if", but this is nothing more than a devil's advocate scenario that has no basis in reality, so I'm loath to entertain it as a deal breaker. You can continue to convince others in this thread of such a scenario, but I wouldn't put it on the list of deal breakers. What I see is someone who witnessed a bad dealing with WOTC and now has conspiracy theories running to Jupiter and back making it look like WOTC trumps the courts. True20 is not a D20 product. It was created in response to what they didn't like about D20.Dancey said that the OGL was about screwing the licenser? No, his plan was that companies would be able to use the licenser's product to the benefit of all parties. The OGL provides NO benefit to the licenser.Look, the earliest period of any document is going to have a lot of holes that need filling. Often, as is the case here, phrasing causes stickiness that can take a long time to go away, or in this case: never. The OGL is far from perfect, and the fact that the network barely comes back to WOTC is problematic. I don't have the diagram in front of me, but I believe Dancey's diagram put the licenser at the center of the network, but the OGL in practice puts the licenser on parallel footing in the market to the licensee, meaning they get no greater market share than the licensee, meaning also that they create a competitor to take market share away from the licenser with little to no return. That's losing profit, not gaining profit.I'm telling you now, we have been around this in several circles already, and I don't see the circles stopping any time soon. I'm getting dizzy here.</blockquote>

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