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<blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8911429" data-attributes="member: 6778210"><p>It's very hard to profit from something when the entire thing can be brought down on your head without any recourse. It may or may not be about profit, but simply long-term stability in that case.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If WotC wants to do that, they can try, but these lawsuits aren't exactly favorable ground since they have people who were actually there when OGL 1.0a was created, along with a pretty extensive list of statements which repeat their interpretation of the OGL as meant to be unrevocable.</p><p></p><p>Like, the whole point of this is to avoid court through threat. If you go to court, someone could take this and win, and that's not an unlikely possibility here: in fact, I'd say it's probably likely that they'd lose <em>because </em>of all the previous statements in that regard. They'd rather have uncertainty which scares off the little names because if they confirm in court they can't just revoke OGL 1.0a, that's a massive loss for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justice and Rule, post: 8911429, member: 6778210"] It's very hard to profit from something when the entire thing can be brought down on your head without any recourse. It may or may not be about profit, but simply long-term stability in that case. If WotC wants to do that, they can try, but these lawsuits aren't exactly favorable ground since they have people who were actually there when OGL 1.0a was created, along with a pretty extensive list of statements which repeat their interpretation of the OGL as meant to be unrevocable. Like, the whole point of this is to avoid court through threat. If you go to court, someone could take this and win, and that's not an unlikely possibility here: in fact, I'd say it's probably likely that they'd lose [I]because [/I]of all the previous statements in that regard. They'd rather have uncertainty which scares off the little names because if they confirm in court they can't just revoke OGL 1.0a, that's a massive loss for them. [/QUOTE]
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