From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named “The International”… Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?
From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named “The International”… Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?
FOSS keeps costs down. If I wanna save costs on my business we use open source EVERYTHING.
FOSS means he’s not tied to another capitalist’s platform, but it increases costs — a literal strategy tax.
If this were true, every corporation would be major FOSS users and contributors. The reality is that Microsoft threatened Steam’s continued existence and Valve needed another outlet to ensure their survival.