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I'm old enough to remember when buying Minecraft Alpha included a promise that the code would be made open source some day. IIRC it was "when I'm tired of worki

I'm old enough to remember when buying Minecraft Alpha included a promise that the code would be made open source some day. IIRC it was "when I'm tired of working on it", which given the success it's been is probably never. (For some value of "I" that's not Notch.)

justin66 9y ago
Selling the product to Microsoft is pretty much the opposite of making it open source.
- petemc_ 9y ago
  I would probably go back on a lot of things I've said if someone offered me over a billion dollars. Also minecraft being as popular as it is you would end up with a lot (more) pissed off clueless users. cf kodi.
delcaran 9y ago
Not the same thing, but I found Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/ https://www.minetest.net/) a very good opensource alternative.