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This cought my eye: > Can I download the OS to try it out? You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet. Wonder
by arianvanp 13y ago
This cought my eye:
> Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet.
Wondering if that'd include their entire product in source code? probably not, aye?
- cheald 13y agoAlmost assuredly not, since their DRM is a big part of their platform. They may include pieces of it, though.
- jmcqk6 13y agoIsn't most of their DRM encryption based? I mean, it's not all that restrictive, and it's quite possible that simply seeing the code for the DRM would not be enough to circumvent it. I think other companies would have a problem, but I don't think valve is probably one of of them. I could be wrong though.
- cheald 13y agoPreorder delivery is encrypted, yeah. However, they also have bits in Steam-delivered games that can check for a valid Steam session, terminate the game session if the Steam session is lost, and the like. I don't think they'll be shipping some of those components because they wouldn't want to enable people building custom Steam installs that just stub out the DRM features.
- thefreeman 13y agoWhile I agree that they will definitely not be releasing source for Steam, I doubt its for DRM reasons. As far as I can tell steamapi.DLL DRM is pretty thoroughly owned.
- Mahn 13y agoWell it's built on top of Linux so it would only make sense. Plus they seem eager to get people to hack it, so why not? Can't hurt their business either way, they still own Steam as a store.