diff --git a/NOTE-TO-MS.asc b/NOTE-TO-MS.asc deleted file mode 100644 index b022445..0000000 --- a/NOTE-TO-MS.asc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ ------BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -Hash: SHA256 - -- -- To Microsoft. -- -- You deserve to get yourselves investigated by Trading Standards. -- -- I don't mean that in a "and then everything comes out okay" way, -- -- I mean that as in a "you deserve to be legitimately threatened with being shutdown" way. -- -- See that MultiMC issue, #2223, about the Windows 10 thing? -- -- That's the beginnings of what you've caused, and don't you dare deny the intent. -- -- In what world is swapping around the names of two products, both in -- -- active sales no less, to get one to be chosen over the other by an -- -- uninformed buyer *not illegal*? - -- -- To anyone else, I say this. -- -- If you're affected by this, just pirate the Java edition. -- -- You have been affected by what I can say without contradiction is a campaign of lies. -- -- Deliberate or otherwise, but history would point in favour of a calculated attack. -- -- Take what is frankly rightfully yours. -- -- Oh, Microsoft, did you not like that? I don't care, and it is plainly obvious why I shouldn't care. - -- -- To the Mojang team - the *real* Mojang team (Anyone working on Bedrock is exempt) - I pity you, -- -- but I'm afraid I have to recommend this course of action. -- -- There is no other way. I'm sure you already know what Microsoft is like first-hand. -- -- I'm sure you've read the reports and you know Microsoft will lobby their way -- -- past anything I could even suggest to any politician, if it even got that far. -- -- I'm sure you can already see your presumed redundancies coming, and I doubt I hasten it. -- -- And frankly, preventing Microsoft from abusing Minecraft as a lock-in tactic in whatever way I can -- -- takes priority. - -- -- To those who doubted what I said to them when I said it to them, -- -- to those who doubt me now, know this. It's happening, it's real, -- -- there is proof with basic searches. - -- -- To those who are ignorant, and yet scared to let anyone leave them, -- -- THOSE WITHOUT WINDOWS 10 ON THEIR DESKTOPS WON'T BE ABLE TO JOIN YOU -- -- ON MC IF THIS GOES AS THEY LIKELY INTEND. -- -- You may doubt my "likely", but remember this: -- -- We thought they would do this long ago, when Microsoft bought Mojang. -- -- It took time, yes. But it started to happen and when it did, everything started moving into place. -- -- The "Better Together" (unless on a non-Windows 10 desktop) update was simply the end of a journey. -- -- When I look back, the guesses - mine and others - as to what they will do next have been delayed, -- -- but they are occurring, along with new horrors that I did not expect, -- -- like the commercialization of that offered by mods for free here on the "Java Edition". -- -- You can argue all you like about how they put work into that stuff, -- -- fact is, Bedrock is a downgrade. -- -- You could argue about performance, but - Mods fix the performance issues, -- -- and they aren't exactly hard to install. Download Forge installer. Run Forge installer. -- -- Copy one file. Done. -- -- You cannot argue about playerbase - people are left behind, unable to go to Bedrock. -- -- Even if you claim it's their fault for using Windows 10, how much have you somehow missed -- -- about Windows 10's various nastiness? There's a laptop basically unusable for anything real-time here -- -- on Windows 10 because of an update that screwed it over, and no, a reset did not fix it. Nothing did. -- -- Except moving it to another OS, but of course, that wouldn't work so well if Bedrock was a concern. -- -- Moddability has been, and probably always will be, destroyed on Bedrock. -- -- Sure, you'll eventually get some more and more access, -- -- but there's a reason the way Minecraft modding went -- -- lead to the inventive and amazing mods out there, -- -- and it certainly wasn't a bunch of "behavior packs"! - -- -- To those who wonder what the hell this is doing here, -- -- I don't care. Feel free to remove the file from your local machines, -- -- but if you send a PR asking for its removal, I *will* reject it instantly. - -- -- -20kdc ------BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- - -iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE4HrK8U+8321iGlEUALn5S4V/2fkFAlrafToACgkQALn5S4V/ -2fkW/wf/afn8PjeCYyNOWNhGmELNO5dL3eWaBb86KAiDZXMYPmCifDiXOOmYeq2t -3cqcDXujOQJN7PE8RBzrVSIm2kjLtQXoFuhww6A9p3LuyXdPT0WykMroPM5xYrrH -7c6VtaWkXngHn/Z/aLgIDsveW/LiHqG5a8N98XdPivlRgfsBPo5+/wv84gcnAGzL -vJURI/GMEuFj+Bg6Vw0fiiYF4DAVKSdSb830bW4flFTwXBHOL8SiUbEDBX1W5nj1 -KbnIhnXdy/rGbjsVUlpnDIyL+IdTyRwLyxYpjvHqpdb0RjALCw+b6uzQ6feOUb2/ -RsDIy5cRGY4k2sSP+yFByvNR34HphA== -=uPTk ------END PGP SIGNATURE-----