From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • hips_and_nips@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why would they have to open source anything? Just because it’s running on Linux doesn’t mean it’s OSS or even F(L)OSS. Steam isn’t open source either.

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      11 months ago

      Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.

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        11 months ago

        Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.

        That seems allot more like a one-off, a one time thing.

        Also, anyone can view the source code for the open source product.

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        11 months ago

        Nobody with two brain cells says foss can’t have spy/malware. What’s true is only that in important projects, it is very likely it will raise flags very soon. For example, see your link