Contracts, eh? Three people got a cut of the $2B buyout, some random contractor doing a bit of writing for the game isn't going to get anything. I made the game _playable_ for a huge number of people by optimizing the save format (MCRegion) and doing the first implementation of Unicode text, probably affecting the exponential growth rate a bit, but I understand that my contribution amounted to a few weeks of work, explicitly agreed on not doing it for money, and moved on with life.
Thanks for your work! Minecraft is literally the game that inspired me to learn coding (through Redstone and stuff). I also dabble in making my own minecraft clones now and I've realized how the smallest details can have a significant performance impact: from saving space on disk to speeding up loading times etc. Anyways, it's cool that you had a hand in the early efforts of the game!
You don't understand art, you probably didn't finish reading what Julian wrote, you'll likely never understand what he did, and that poem probably has less meaning for you than most who would read it having never played the game.
