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We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux.

These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    18 days ago

    How is it at the expense of the game player? Even if they paid less, the publisher and developers aren’t going to pass the savings on to the consumer. That’s wishful thinking in the same vain as hoping Starbucks would make their drinks cheaper because their rent went down.

    This is the most dumbass asinine defense. So now you’re pro landlord rent gouging?

    Jesus fucking Christ how are people upvoting this flat out landlord simping crap.

    It does not fucking matter if Ubisoft remains greedy. Every single independent self publishing dev gets 15% more money. If a landlord gogiges Starbucks, they’re also going to gouge the independent business, and the family needing somewhere to live.

    If anything, one can argue that the 30% fee shelled out by the publisher pays for the various nice-to-haves that players get on Steam, like: a functional review system, free cloud save syncing, the workshop, game discussion forum, friends system, family sharing, game streaming, Steam input (which is a godsend for accessibility), etc.

    “Oh my corporate landlord might be owned by a billionaire and every single one of his employees might be a multimillionaire, but he’s a good landlord because he gives us a washing machine. It might be old and clunky and never repaired, but hey that makes him a saint, right?”

    The fucking fact that you brought up landlords rent seeking as a non issue is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. You need to go outside, give your head a shake, and do fucking better.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          Revenue per employee is not that employee’s salary. Pick your jaw up from your keyboard the next time you are insulting me.

          • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
            01·
            17 days ago

            Wolfire estimated that Valve had roughly 360 employees (a number likely sourced from Valve itself in 2016) and that per-employee profit was around $15 million per year.

            Even if that $15 million number isn’t exactly right, Valve, in its public employee handbook, says that “our profitability per employee is higher than that of Google or Amazon or Microsoft.” A document from the Wolfire lawsuit revealed Valve employees discussing just how much higher — though the specific number for Valve employees is redacted.

            https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

            If you don’t want to be insulted than don’t blindly dick ride a corporation.

            • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              17 days ago

              You are grade A braindead. Once again, that is not the employee salary. That is how fucken Gabe is buying yachts. Jfc, go take a business class or swipe a Business for Dumbies at a bookstore. Thats how much each of their employees makes them. Not how much each of their employees are personally paid.

              • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                01·
                17 days ago

                Great! So in the context of the conversation, you then agree with me that Valve is an even worse company, that’s definitely not worthy of praise since they can afford to make all their employees multimillionaires but instead keep it for themselves.

                Glad we can agree on the entire fucking point of this thread: that Valve is a greedy company not worth praising or dick riding.

                • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  17 days ago

                  No, we dont agree. Valve is an okay company. There is not a single company that will do what you are wanting. It doesnt happen in our society of hierarchies and wealth incentives. The only thing I was saying, is that is not what they get paid.

                  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
                    0·
                    17 days ago

                    Congrats then on making a bold pedantic claim that you can’t actually back up and is based on nothing.

                    Big round of applause for yourself. I’m sure the Valve software engineers who know how profitable they are happily accept lower salaries than their counterparts at Amazon and Meta. Such wisdom.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
      1·
      18 days ago

      So now you’re pro landlord rent gouging?

      No, they’re anti Starbucks price gouging. It’s like all those companies taking advantage of a little inflation to drastically increase retail prices.

      It might be old and clunky and never repaired

      It’s the opposite.