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The effort Valve seems to be putting into bringing the platform up to speed, including hiring a lot of Linux talent and cooperating with driver vendors, seems t
by 0x0 14y ago
The effort Valve seems to be putting into bringing the platform up to speed, including hiring a lot of Linux talent and cooperating with driver vendors, seems to imply that there is a (hidden?) agenda here that goes beyond selling a few game licenses to the set of today's Linux desktop users.
(Especially when you consider the recent gaben statements about win8 being a "catastrophe", and the windows app store stepping on steam's toes)
I think Carmack's response misses the mark. Valve ain't targeting Linux as just yet-another-platform.
- ktizo 14y agoEspecially given the recent fuss around Ouya, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see valve have a go at a high powered linux flavoured console.
- forgottenpaswrd 14y agoMake no mistake: Steam and the App store are competitors for selling digital applications over the Internet. It tomorrow MS and Apple "force" people to pay using their App store, they need some alternative. MS was a great competitor destroyer. You will compete with them, for example with compilers, like Borland or Lotus or Wordperfect or Netscape and they will destroy you first going against your income generators and they will care about the product later, when there is a monopoly. MS could destroy steam just using their OS control to make steam perform badly, they did it in the past with companies like DR-DOS, with media encoders-decoders(making them use code that they slowed down on purpose so their badly programmed software looked better) and so on.
- 0x0 14y agoMeet the new boss, same as the old boss...