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I disagree. The history of Minecraft is one of the most incredible indie developer success stories that exists. Whether its free or proprietary is irrelevant -

I disagree. The history of Minecraft is one of the most incredible indie developer success stories that exists. Whether its free or proprietary is irrelevant - we're talking about a game, a fun creative work, not some piece of infrastructure we will all come to depend upon and be entrapped by. The lack of a free license or source code hasn't stopped all kinds of creative modding (nor has it with many, many other games in the past). As long as we are all free to create and distribute original works, so that the next one-man success story can take place, we are fine.

jasonkostempski 10y ago
"The lack of a free license or source code hasn't stopped all kinds of creative modding". My son still plays mostly on 1.7 because that's where the modding pretty much stopped. There is absolutely no chance of modding ever happening for PE, Windows 10, XBox, Playstation, etc. They give you shitty limited options so you can remake some mini games that the modding community invented. And if you think MS isn't eventually going to merge the code bases, you're crazy.