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From the notoriously flat structure of Valve to the support of free software to the extremely laissez faire way of running steam to the main Dota tournament being named "The International"... Is Gabe Newell a card carrying Anarchist?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This is entirely silly. Specially when you consider they removed the flat structure at Valve recently. Also even when it was flat it was still structured as more important people's opinions carried more weight. It made it feel like high school according to one developer where there was cliques and entourageous. That's not anarchy.

Additionally Valve is not overall for Foss projects. Steam itself is still very closed and very restrictive. Proton was created to keep costs down and because Windows at one point threatened to enforce the windows store for outside apps. Potentially destroying steam.

Steam and Valve only contribute to open source as far as it benefits them. They are ex Microsoft employees that understand the embrace and extend side and are embracing Linux and it's community. Extending wine. And potentially one day extinguishing the broad availability of Linux to replace it with steam os. You see this on their storefront already. Years ago when a game supported Linux on steam you'd see an icon of tux. Now you see an icon of steam os. A subtle reminder that Valve does not care about Linux but instead of being a thriving business.

Gabe is a capitalist. You don't become a billionaire without abusing workers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

there was cliques and entourageous. That’s not anarchy.

Isn't that basically one of the key features of anarchy? There may not be an official structure, but people are allowed to form groups and associate based on their values and goals. The fact that this ends up feeling like high school is a pretty big black mark against anarchy in my book.

Though a corporation being anarchist is kinda absurd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a key feature of humans tbh

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