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[-] Willdrick@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

There's a key point in the article that emphasizes that valve are indeed "being nice": their policy is " upstream everything".

Yes the motives are still keeping a foot out in case Microsoft decides to screw them over in some way, but they could (as many companies do) keep the improvements all for themselves, buy developers and make a closed source version of any of the tech they have been funding, locking down steamOS to only allow steam games and so on.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Complete nonsense, even publicly traded companies upstream their open source code because it makes business sense. Valve doesn't do anything to be nice and never has. They're creating their own market to sell to in case MS locks them out.

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