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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bayushi_seikuro" data-source="post: 8888666" data-attributes="member: 7024851">I can't help but wonder how much of this all got started by a (justifiable?) jump to conclusions.  By which I mean... maybe Wizards was just putting out out tests to see 'How much would you pay to be able to claim you're 5e/One D&D compatible?' - probably to shut their bosses at Hasbro up.  I've been living in corporate America for quite some time, and I've personally been on the receiving end of some stuff.  I find it interesting that, where I'm cynical in most regards, I am really hoping that this is a way Wizards is saying to Hasbro 'We're your most profitable division with the most loyal fans - don't change anything' and then they use this as evidence to people who just want to read P&L statements.   Combine this uproar with the stuff going on about MtG and how quickly they're printing things and Bank of America lowering the value...  Who knows.One more comment, and I don't mean this in a political way regarding intent vs language on a document - we've still got things being debated in the American Constitution since the get-go that both sides feel they are 'reading it plainly'.  Personally, I wonder also that if we will run into a situation about what 'open-source' means, and whether what applies to software also applies to non-software.  I wonder how, back in the day, if HPL had made a stink and decided no other authors could use the Mythos, how that would have shook out legally.  YMMV</blockquote>

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