@rygD: Yeah, you're right. Crap, somehow that managed to slip away from my memory, sorry for doing a pointless repost. :wacko:
@Moxie: I agree with you that at present time selling the company was the only reasonable course of action.
But what i was thinking is that maybe if Notch had done something like open sourcing Minecraft at the right time (perhaps, around when Minecraft started growing way beyond what was anticipated), he could have slowly started pointing Mojang in a direction that would allow the game to eventually be partially maintained by the community, possibly relieving him of some stress in the process.
To be honest though, i am not sure of how financial issues of such a change could have been resolved (i am no expert in the field), but perhaps previous profits and some interested investors could have shown up (there's no way of really knowing for sure afterall). Maybe even at one point the community itself would have been interested and start supporting Mojang through some sort of a croundfunding or something.
Eitherway, all of this is nothing but speculations really (seeing something like this would be quite interesting though).
