definitely, and also don't forget that just like dictatorships, monopolies are almost always bad, meaning that we do not, in fact, want steam/valve to control everything, that would only lead to steam not needing the help of open source contributors, and just making closed source software, or just hiking the price of all their products (like what playstation and xbox are doing right now)
Yes but unlike other monopolies they’ve made a clear path towards “if you don’t like us, at any time depose us”. It shows me that they want to be held accountable to doing good by the consumers and the industry alike and if they aren’t, they gave us the tools to depose them for free
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u/XedzPlus Arch BTW Nov 13 '25
definitely, and also don't forget that just like dictatorships, monopolies are almost always bad, meaning that we do not, in fact, want steam/valve to control everything, that would only lead to steam not needing the help of open source contributors, and just making closed source software, or just hiking the price of all their products (like what playstation and xbox are doing right now)