&gt; How is it fair for Notch to be upset at Oculus being bought by Facebook when he sold his company to Microsoft shortly afterward?<p>From personal experience, I think we often are most vehemently angry about behaviors we feel like we are dangerously close to falling prey to. The closeted gays who are white-knuckling a righteous straight life are often the most vocally opposed to people who give in to homo temptation.<p>I suspect Notch was wrestling with those issues for years, and trying to harden himself against temptation. Selling to Microsoft wasn&#x27;t necessarily a compromise to his values. It&#x27;s possible that deal was fundamentally different to the Oculus deal in some way that matters to Notch. But it makes sense to me that he&#x27;d have strong opinions about how to go about doing something he was also struggling to figure out how to do.