federino@programming.dev to Steam@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoWhat do you think of this prediction?programming.devimagemessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down16
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months ago Proton will live on, specifically because it is open-source. Don’t just thank open source; thank copyleft for the fact that Valve couldn’t make a closed-source fork of it even if it wanted to.
minus-squareKubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoEven 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.
Don’t just thank open source; thank copyleft for the fact that Valve couldn’t make a closed-source fork of it even if it wanted to.
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.