With the following announcement…
https://twitter.com/dndbeyond/status/1619064403466326027?s=46&t=veQggq64sT1wKfwpPBCmnQ
…. some seem to think that Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has lost. Their plans for the new OGL (read a good takedown of the new OGL here) have been scrapped and they are keeping the old OGL.
Time to celebrate, right?
Yes, WotC put the 5.1 SRD into the Creative Commons and they are keeping the old OGL. This appears to be a victory.
But it isn’t.
WotC has shown their hand. The new OGL was so awful, so greedy that it proved that WotC CANNOT BE TRUSTED. This is not a matter of a single clause that got reversed. Had it just been one little thing, it might be excusable.
The rot is systematic. As soon as the mob forgets about the new OGL, WotC will bring it back. Probably in small pieces, like the dwarves coming to Beorn in The Hobbit. But, they might just bring out the new OGL and just implement it any way. In any case, WotC hates you.
Yes, you. Not just the customer, but the publishers who used the OGL to create their own businesses.
They have shown that they only see you as a piggy bank full of money and they want to turn you upside down and shake as hard as they can. Now, most companies want your money. A good company will try and give you a good deal for your money.
Nothing about the new OGL was good for the consumer or the third-party publisher. NOTHING.
And they tried to make it happen. The new OGL was so full of awful ideas that it should have never seen the light of day. And they tried. They tried once and they WILL try again.
Don’t trust WotC.
Trust is for the foolish… and the dead.
The Mixed GM 
Those WotC simps are already warming back up to their abusive master. Sad!
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