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Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration (lists.archlinux.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I don't agree that they're a monopoly, because they've done absolutely nothing to prevent competition. Other stores do it to themselves.

Yes they have. The steam friends network and the fact that you can't transfer your purchases, friends data, or community data to other platforms is an inherent form of lock in. Just because you're used to it because Facebook also does it, doesn't mean it's not.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 5 hours ago

What do you expect them to do? Not actively helping your competition is not remotely the same thing as being anticompetitive.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Lock-in != Monopoly.

The fact that you can't transfer your purchases [...] to other platforms

This is ridiculously unrealistic in a capitalist society.

It costs the platform money whenever a user downloads a game, and a user who didn't buy from their store isn't a user that they make money from. No other platform would voluntarily accept a recurring cost like that unless they profit from user data.

Also, it's not like they stop publishers from doing that themselves. Ubisoft and EA use the cd-key generated by steam to associate the game with your U-Play and Origin accounts.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Lock-in != Monopoly

They asked if they did anything anti-competitive. Lock-in is inherently anti-competitive.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not being able to transfer purchases seems like an other-platforms problem. Steam has authenticated API for users' game libraries.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is it a form of lock in or not?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 8 hours ago

No.

Anyone is free to access purchases given the user chooses to give that info, they just don't. Skill izzue