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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by federino@programming.dev to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even if they want to open-source it, an issue is the amount of work of organizing the repository, making sure it's properly organized and doesn't have any files they don't want to distribute, and then maintaining that with future versions.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What? Proton (i.e., WINE) has been LGPL Free Software since before Valve even touched it.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

Sorry, what I mean is, if Valve wasn't forced to keep it opensource, I think a big factor against would be the extra work