• @grue
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    735 months ago

    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.

    • KubeRoot
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      45 months ago

      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.

      • @grue
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        145 months ago

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

        • KubeRoot
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          65 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