And if true, it is a nice gesture on the part of Notch. Because none of us outside of Mojang (and likely only a handful within Mojang) know the full story, I wanted to temper my criticism Markus a bit. It's easy to demonize a guy who strikes it rich and moves on to other things.

It will be interesting to see if he has a public Act II, or if he will essentially retire to obscurity.