I'm as skeptical of Microsoft as any Linux user who read the Halloween documents, but your comment is overly conspiratorial. People have been worried about sca

I'm as skeptical of Microsoft as any Linux user who read the Halloween documents, but your comment is overly conspiratorial. People have been worried about scaling Linus for years, but it seems like there was not much focus on scaling the Linux developer community in general. Contribution quality was maintained through harsh criticism and personal attacks at times, and Linus didn't seem to care if this intimidated people into never contributing at all. Linux has matured, and it's time to acknowledge that some of the rough edges (antisocial aspects) of hacker culture need to go to ensure the project can continue to grow and attract the best code from everyone. Re: Valve, they've been working on Linux support ever since the Microsoft app store was announced. They see it as a threat to Steam, so first they made the Steam box, Steam for Linux, and now the new DirectX -> Vulkan translation layers (they've also contributed a lot of work to the graphics stack). This isn't some new reaction, it's a strategic hedge they've been working on for the better part of a decade.