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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Newell talked openly about this entire topic at LinuxCon years ago. It’s been 12 years and they’ve been true to their word.

The amount they’ve contributed upstream is insane, and the money they’ve provided to Linux-ecosystem contractors is also insane.

They’re profit motivated, 100%, but at least they’ve done so while being a good citizen in the FOSS movement (bar the Steam Client itself). SUSE, Canonical etc are all for-profit orgs that help push FOSS forward.

Profitability and Free and Open Source Software aren’t mutually exclusive.