I think Valve and SteamOS is what convinced Nvidia to start helping out with
Nouveau
I'm not sure if you missed this, but Valve did join the Linux Foundation:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/12/valve-joins-the-linux-foundation-ahead-of-steamos-launch/
Whether that is a good thing or not in the free software camp is debatable.
Hmm. I seem to recall Value making some contributions to the Intel drivers
during L4D2 development, so who knows.
Version 1.0 of the SteamOS was released recently and it is based off of
Debian 7.1 instead of Ubuntu as thought. Do you see this as a good thing that
hopefully improvements to audio and video drivers get pushed back into Debian
and then trickle down into Ubuntu and Trisquel? That is of
sorry guys but I do use steam on tris (anyways...)
..I do think this is a sane choice for valve, deb is save, deb is boring,
very good I say.
ohh and hello fellows!
@t3g
Your implying that Valve might be interested in contributing to free software
in some way.
Do you have a specific reason for thinking so?
Because if not, I highly doubt that they give a damn about everything related
to freedom.
They will put a lot of effort in improving the proprietary
this planet.debian.net post might be of interest:
http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2013/12/14-SteamOS/
I agree, random patches to get the 'debain base' up to 'scratch' is not
freedom ideology, It might be opensource based but based on a nonfree
solution.
The Steam programs included in SteamOS are nonfree of course, but if
improvements to the Debian code are for the nonfree bits to appease vendors,
then it really sucks.
If Valve releases improvements upstream to the free software bits, then that
would be amazing and benefit everyone.
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