Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 368
When he made the promise, the development team consisted only of himself. Now there is a whole company with a number of employees who depend on Minecraft licence sales for their salaries. If Notch open sources Minecraft, all these people will lose their jobs.
So it's probably greed, but not necessarily. In any case, sales haven't tailed off yet, so he hasn't broken his promise.