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So as we've all heard, rumor has it that Microsoft may be buying Mojang for approximately $2 Billion dollars. I've decided to look into the matter further and have put together a handful of tweets and reddit posts by Notch to get some perspective on what may be happening. Here is a video analysis with relative links of his quotes below. Let me know what you all think after reviewing the evidence! Enjoy!




Bloomberg Article ► http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-09/microsoft-said-near-2-billion-deal-for-minecraft-maker.html

Quote on minecraft.net from 2011:

"I plan on developing Minecraft until it's a finished complete game, with a downloadable client (with fullscreen mode), custom key re mappings and possibly modding support.
For as long as people enjoy and purchase the game, I will develop extensions after the game is done.
Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. I'm not very happy with the draconian nature of (L)GPL, nor do I believe the other licenses have much merit other than to boost the egos of the original authors, so I might just possibly release it all as public domain."
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Notch Tweets on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/notch/status/251239807257296897 ► "Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help "certify" minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform." September 27th 2012

https://twitter.com/notch/status/251240819892305922 ► "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way" September 27th 2012

https://twitter.com/notch/status/266282695867396097 ► "Dinner with Microsoft. I got all worked up and nasty about Win8. I need a chill pill!" -November 7 2012

https://twitter.com/notch/status/281139739304800256 ► "Anyway, my price is two billion dollars. Give me two billion dollars, and I'll endorse your crap." December 18 2012


https://twitter.com/notch/status/448586381565390848 ► "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out." March 25th 2014

https://twitter.com/notch/status/448900844541726720 ► "Oh internet. If someone offers you $2bn, you take it. Even if that means running the risk that notch will forbid a minecraft version."

"I've turned down money like that."

https://twitter.com/notch/status/500214489136910336 ► "And about now I'm officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus. I'm upset about there being a hole in my favorite sock instead." August 15 2014


Notch Quotes on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/28397j/what_the_internet_will_look_like_without/ci7a6un

http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/28cgar/notch_is_a_little_upset_with_how_things_are_going/cia7ma1

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2e30ti/if_you_were_actually_killed_by_the_last_person/cjvxhdh