I think it's less the greed and crazy fandom and more a new generation of people that feel they are entitled to everything and anything they want and if they don't get it, start an online witch hunt.
There are numerous examples of this in the past 6 months and in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support.
A community that supports this sort of behavior wouldn't have my support either. I don't blame him.
> a new generation of people that feel they are entitled to everything and anything they want and if they don't get it, start an online witch hunt
Is it really fair to characterize this of a specific generation?
> “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” — Socrates
This is just what happens when you sell 54 million copies of your product. Granted, I'm not exactly entrenched in the Minecraft community, but I'm guessing it's just the usual case where the vocal minority start getting uppity. Whenever you have a group that large, there will be some bad apples.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, however. There comes a point when the amount of vitriol you're receiving isn't worth the success.
> …in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support.
What, you don't think that people who have paid for a game client and server have the right to run that client and server? That's Freedom 0, and it's fundamental. Attempting to violate it with any sort of EULA is simply wrong.
Come on, it's the entertainment industry. You don't see greed and crazy fandom pushing away fundamentally important people like Vint Cerf, since their work isn't related to entertainment.
Wozniak was unusual in that his story wasn't entertainmnet-related, but most of these "I can't handle the public's demands for my attention" stories come from the entertainment industry.
I see what you are saying, there are many smart, if not brilliant people out there. Woz is able to "think different."
Unfortunately, Vint Cerf is not close to being a billionaire. Our economic system doesn't award brilliance, it doesn't award productivity, it awards the ability to convince other people to give them more money. I'm not saying that that's totally bad, just that the money chasers scare away some great minds.
There are numerous examples of this in the past 6 months and in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support.
A community that supports this sort of behavior wouldn't have my support either. I don't blame him.