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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What? Proton (i.e., WINE) has been LGPL Free Software since before Valve even touched it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Sorry, what I mean is, if Valve wasn't forced to keep it opensource, I think a big factor against would be the extra work