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Gray 🩶

RedHat, Canonoical, and Valve are net positives to FOSS and essential to the pursuit of open technology.

All of these companies contain aspects I dislike. Valve is a digital market monopoly. Redhat has extreme profit incentives and poor communication skills. Ubuntu is leaning towards proprietary back-ends and limiting user choice in some projects (snaps).

Yet, these companies fund developers and enable them to work improving #FOSS projects. These developers would not have been able to contribute the same amount of time into FOSS if they were doing it for free. Developers need to afford food and rent. A significant portion of #Linux development is bankrolled by these these titans of open technology.

It is essential to understand the source of controversy during a moment of drama, and direct steady and well thought criticism at the corporate structure responsible for policy decisions, not than the individual developers with minimal or no policy influence.

1. I will meme #RedHat for them shooting themselves in the foot and alienating the Linux community, but I am grateful to the RedHat devs who have dedicated time and effort improving Linux and #Fedora. Their contributions are so significant and voluminous, It is difficult to quantify the sheer amount of work they have contributed upstream.

2. I won't use #Ubuntu due to differences of opinion, but I still respect the time and creative energy #Canonical has spent improving the UI/UX of Debian and making Linux accessible to a larger population. Ubuntu is not my cup of tea, but it's a cup of tea that can reach people that have never tried tea before. Ubuntu is certainly a better cup of tea than the raw sewage of a Microsoft or Google operating system.

3. I am hesitant of #Valve because I am wary of being dependent on a monopoly for media ownership, but their open source and open hardware contributions have ushered in an era of Linux Gaming that was previously non-existent. They have demonstrated sound ethics in most of their policy choices, so I invest a significant degree of trust and gratitude in them, even though I remain skeptical of their digital asset monopoly.

It is disingenuous to label RedHat or Canonical as evil. Neither company is anywhere close to the dystopian nature of Microsoft or Google.

It's a matter of when, not if, companies will make poor decisions. At the scale of these entities, problematic decisions are bound to occur more frequently as policy decisions become disconnected from their impact on the community.

Lately, both RedHat and Canonical have made unwise policy decisions. Yet, I believe the good of their developers' contributions far outweighs the bad of their recent policy decisions. That balance could change in the future, but for now, both are still a solid net positive to the FOSS ecosystem.

TLDR; Reality is rarely black and white. It's often a shade of Gray.

Boiling Steam

Hideo Kojima Trying out the Steam Deck at the TGS 2022, and His New Podcast called Brain Structure: boilingsteam.com/hideo-kojima- #linux #linuxgaming #steamdeck #hardware #tgs2022 #kojima #valve #komodo #podcast #brainstructure

Boiling SteamHideo Kojima Trying out the Steam Deck at the TGS 2022, and His New Podcast called Brain Structure - Boiling SteamHideo Kojima, the famous creator of the series Metal Gear Solid (with Konami) followed by the most recent Death Stranding, is a frequent visitor of the Tokyo Games Show 2022 (TGS 2022). When he used to work at Konami he… <a href="https://boilingsteam.com/hideo-kojima-the-steam-deck-tgs-2022-podcast/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
Gwmngilfen

Day 1 of playing with Valve's new Proton software.

It's awesome. Seriously, this is a game changer. The ability to play a game with no Linux version *and have it show as a Linux sale* to the developer, is great. This is what we needed, as it allows us to use Wine without the nagging feeling that we're undermining ourselves by reducing the apparent market share.

Now I need to learn how to rebuild Proton so I can include a 2line patch for Path of Exile.

#gameing#steam#valve
百川合瀬 :blackbox:

Steamにて、一部アダルトゲームの発売が差し止め中。“すべてを容認”するための新機能が実装されるまで身動きとれず
jp.automaton.am/articles/newsj
＞Steamにおけるアダルトゲームといえば、5月にValveが同ジャンルのゲーム開発者向けに性表現の削除および変更を求めていた（関連記事）。急な変更要請と曖昧な基準により開発者だけでなく多くのユーザーの反発を受け、要求を撤回。6月には一転、「違法」「荒らし」以外のすべてのコンテンツを基本的に容認していくと発表（関連記事）。それにあわせて、ユーザーの要望にあわせてフィルタリングできる新機能を実装する予定があることも明かしていた。そのフィルタリング機能の準備が、今回アダルトゲームのリリースを阻んでいるということになる。

フィルタリング機能実装、あまり時間かけるとまた批判されると思うんですが、#Valve の見通しはいかに。
:steam: #Steam

AUTOMATONSteamにて、一部アダルトゲームの発売が差し止め中。“すべてを容認”するための新機能が実装されるまで身動きとれず | AUTOMATONBy Minoru Umise
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