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   Lily (ame@snug.moe)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 22:54:39 JST Lily

   ultrakill's dev is a pretty good person

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 00:05:47 JST 翠星石

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     • 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:
     @enigmatico >I wonder how Minecraft would be doing today, if Notch said "no" to Microsoft.
     It would still be proprietary, after all, Notch did complain about the freedom the GPL family ensures.
     
     You'd have to be braindead to say no to billions of dollars - I would have said yes, but then proceeded to use a small fraction of the huge amount of profit to pay developers to clone everything in minetest to btfo microsoft.
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     【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey: (enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 00:05:49 JST 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:

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     @ame@snug.moe Anyone should say "no" to AAA companies. I wonder how Minecraft would be doing today, if Notch said "no" to Microsoft.

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     Lily (ame@snug.moe)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 00:05:50 JST Lily

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     @enigmatico i don't think it will happen tbh, they were already approached by some studios for next games and said no

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     【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey: (enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 00:05:51 JST 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:

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     @ame@snug.moe For now. Until some AAA company buys their game/studio/whatever and butchers it.

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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 04:58:04 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
     >ni.hil.ist
     What moral standard are you holding Notch to?
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     Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (wednesday@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 04:58:05 JST Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

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     @enigmatico @ame

     didn't Notch turn out not to be a great person? so in that case possibly not so well if everyone ended up leaving the game because of that.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 19:29:15 JST 翠星石

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     • MMS21 :blobcatkirby:
     @MMS21 >here was probably something in the contract that stopped him from doing anything of the sort
     Yes, there was something in the contract that demanded he cease all involvement in minecraft and maybe even games.
     
     You could do the moral thing and break such proprietary contract to betray humanity, except in a way that doesn't cause legal consequences, for example by anonymously offering bounties for mineclone development in monero (if you do it properly they'll never be able to prove it).
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 19:29:20 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     • 【Ξｎｉｇｍａｔｉｃｏ】:misskey:
     There was probably something in the contract that stopped him from doing anything of the sort because he ceased all involvement with minecraft after imo
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     MMS21 :blobcatkirby: (mms21@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 19:33:57 JST MMS21 :blobcatkirby:

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     Seems like a silly risk to take when he’s a billionaire and that could easily set him back to zero
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 19:33:57 JST 翠星石

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     @MMS21 How would it set him back to zero?
     
     Even if they were to sue and manage to prove such, they'd only be entitled to a few million in "compensation" at best, as it's not like minetest has anything to do with minecraft.