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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HomegrownHydra" data-source="post: 8911178" data-attributes="member: 6775557">It is far easier to destroy the Death Star while it is being built than after it is finished and fully operational. Furthermore, you seem to accept that the motivation for this new license is to prevent people from publishing hate speech. But their original attempt at this license went far beyond limiting hate speech and included requiring people to report their revenues as well as outrageous royalties that would be crippling. Worst of all, they had a clause that granted them the right to change or cancel the license at will! Such a clause would allow WotC to destroy any business at anytime and there is absolutely no legitimate reason for that clause. They revealed that their intentions are not good and so no one should be trusting them that they are really looking to just prevent hate speech. It's not like nuking the OGL will prevent anyone from publishing hate speech, that could be done before the OGL appeared and could be done if the OGL is destroyed. The OGL did not create a flood of hate speech in RPG's. This is almost entirely about WotC trying to get control over all of the 3pp's in order to further monetize the game.The argument you are using is like saying the Rebellion should have let the Empire build the second Death Star because maybe it would be used for good despite them having already seen what the Empire's intentions were since the first Death Star had already been used for evil.I totally get that you are happy with the proposed license, I'm pointing out that the reasoning you are using to try to convince others to give up the fight makes no sense. Surrendering now with the intention of fighting later is irrational because it would make clear to WotC that we are a bunch of pushovers who can be counted on to eventually surrender. Besides, if we surrender now it won't matter if we manage to win future fights because we will have already lost the war. By giving up the OGL the community will be far worse off even if WotC doesn't completely abuse their powers under the new license since we will already have lost so many rights we used to have.</blockquote>

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