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I'd feel much better if they would clarify the term PC. As a long time Linux user and Minecraft fan; I'd hope the Linux client continues to thrive similar to the way the Skype client has after the Microsoft acquisition. The fact that the list uses the term PC instead of spelling out "Windows,Linux,etc." worries me some.

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Unless Microsoft moves the game away from Java to some other language, I don't see how that would happen. The "Linux client" is just the raw .jar that is wrapped by the Minecraft.exe Windows executable. They both pull down the same assets and Java bits and pieces before running the main process.

I'm worried about that too - the real issues is the platform-specific "natives" folder.

For now this folder consists of opensource libraries (lwjgl).

That's mostly lwjgl. So they would need to move away from that before that goes away.

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