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Then why isn't Microsoft suing Valve for Proton/DXVK?
by COGlory 3y ago
Then why isn't Microsoft suing Valve for Proton/DXVK?
- hobofan 3y agoProbably because they don't care?
- easyThrowaway 3y agoBecause they ran their numbers and realized they have more to lose by going against Valve than... amicably find a compromise. A more aggressive approach was tried during the Xbox 360 era with the Games For Windows Live framework and by removing their games from the Steam store. It ended up catastrophically bad and they had to backtrack on both decisions. The irony of Proton de facto killing any chance for native linux ports of windows games isn't lost to them, either.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoNot sure if this is relevant, but IIUC Proton and Wine implement Windows' ABI, rather than something involving copyrighted header files.
- constantcrying 3y agoBecause these lawsuits are costly, a PR nightmare, loosing them is a serious possibility and going around fighting your competition with lawsuits can put you into a bad place with government agencies. Playing games on linux is not a threat to microsoft. The money they loose on that is miniscule.
- dotnet00 3y agoMS has been building lots of goodwill with gamers by bringing games to PC and subverting expectations by not being opposed to using game pass on Steam Deck. Suing Valve or trying to shut down Proton/DXVK would instantly burn all that.