Off the shelf problems may have off the shelf solutions. However, solving unique problems (which may have value in solving them) do not have off the shelf solu

Off the shelf problems may have off the shelf solutions. However, solving unique problems (which may have value in solving them) do not have off the shelf solutions. Valve just launched a beta of their Steam client for Linux. There was nowhere for them to just download and use it from- since it was a unique problem.