ACM awards are dominated by the theory community. A lot of theoreticians with NO impact on the world have awards. Metcalfe was one of a dozen people who co-invented Ethernet and does not fit the historians "Great man" theory where history is decided by a few "Great Men" who went a different direction at a critical moment ... Ethernet's success is only 25% due to him.
For example, in 1979 at UIUC a grad student built 230kbps S-100 cards using rs232 chips and I wrote the Z-80 csma/cd drivers (as a high school student) so it was not rocket science.
So there was reluctance to give him an award for something he didn't pioneer all alone.
The purpose of anti-trust is to prevent firms from exercising market power that leads to predatory pricing and anti-competitive behaviors that lower social surplus and innovation. There's a whole subfield of economics called Industrial Organization that tackles this.
Many of the commenters are so quick to discount the value of the End Poem, but from the replies of the writer's tweet it's pretty clear that many players have read the poem and been positively impacted by it. https://mobile.twitter.com/juliangough/status/16004656735571...
It’s hard to ascribe value to it when you know the whole ending was rushed in as Notch walked out the door and the brief for the poem was literally just something long and nonsensical that appears out of nowhere and doesn’t mean anything.
Like it’s not a good ending to Minecraft, the game was maybe better off not having an ending.
