I get what you are saying Carey but theres also the other side of the equation.
If major developers like Valve come over to linux and show that there is money to be made, then there will be more devs moving over to linux.
More devs moving to linux means that more linux experts will need to be hired > More Linux experts being hired means that there is a good chance that they will gain more knowledge from their working with the devs > They can pass this knowledge on to the community > which in the end means better free gnu software for us the end user.
Also if more major devs follow valve then theres a higher chance that more people pay attention to linux which is also good for our wavering community.
I for one welcome valve and Steam. Tired of having to switch to windows just to play a decent game.
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