I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
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Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#2The writer of the poem, or short story, when you beat the ender dragon in Minecraft, never signed the contract releasing his copyright on it. That means Microsoft doesn't actually own the ending to Minecraft.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#3I never even knew Minecraft had an ending until now.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#4This is a great (long!) piece.
I think one important thing for people on HN here is this:
> I think Carl, with his background as a Corporate Finance guy, seeing the world through that filter, must have believed that I was trying to blackmail them; trying to maximise my revenue, like the “rational agents” that populate economics textbooks; that I was refusing to sign it to hold up the deal, because I wanted to get paid off. And I totally get how he could see it that way, given where he was coming from; but that wasn’t really what the issue was.
There are many people on HN (and elsewhere) who see behaving as a rational economic actor as a default state and - worse - many believe economics is a zero sum game.
Neither of these things is true, and it's a big mistake to think so. People do things for diverse motivations, and money is only one.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#5The writer of the poem, or short story, when you beat the ender dragon in Minecraft, never signed the contract releasing his copyright on it. That means Microsoft doesn't actually own the ending to Minecraft.
Thankyou!
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#6Well, and karma apparently works, as notch's life after becoming billionaire doesn't seem to be too positive
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#7I never even knew Minecraft had an ending until now.
Sounds like it's time to play it!
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#8Just want to say, it's definitely not THE most popular game of all time... Candy crush could be a strong candidate, though they probably never use that term on themselves.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#9This is a great (long!) piece. I think one important thing for people on HN here is this: > I think Carl, with his background as a Corporate Finance guy, seeing the world through that filter, must have believed that I was trying to blackmail them; trying to maximise my revenue, like the “rational agents” that populate economics textbooks; that I was refusing to sign it to hold up the deal, because I wanted to get pai…
Money is often one of the more boring and predictable ones too.
Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
#10The irony, it’s now in the public domain but I can only access the bottom of the post if I have a Substack account.