Valve Announces Steambox, Sort Of

wbr1 writes "A new page has appeared over at Steam with this slightly cryptic text, a countdown, and an image of a console controller. 'Last year, we shipped a software feature called Big Picture, a user-interface tailored for televisions and gamepads. This year we've been working on even more ways to connect the dots for customers who want Steam in the living-room. Soon, we'll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.' It appears Gabe Newell wants to throw his hat in the console ring now with the Xbox One and PS4 about to be released. The countdown to the announcement is targeted at Monday."

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Re:They've got a good shot at it

[hairyfeet]

But Linux is a BAD IDEA as all consoles HAVE TO HAVE DRM or you won't get the major players on board and that means the "FOSSie Faction" as I call them will be up in arms and maybe even some lawsuits over GPL violations.

A MUCH better choice would be to do what Sony did and use BSD, that way they can still have the DRM required while sharing the non DRM bits, just as Apple shares the low level stuff but doesn't share their GUI. If they go Linux and DRM free they can say goodbye to Activision, EA, and ubisoft and that would be the kiss of death. After all who is gonna buy a Steambox that only plays indie titles when you can get one of those little Android consoles for $100 that will do the same?

Re:They've got a good shot at it

[hairyfeet]

Hey dumbass...Linux is just a kernel, remember? or are you REALLY gonna claim that Valve is gonna spend over a billion bucks to make their own GPL V2 fork as Google did with Android? because we have seen ZERO indications of that. And Linus has said in interviews repeatedly he CAN'T go GPL V3 as he didn't add "or better" in the original license which mans he'd have to contact every single person who has EVER contributed code and get their permission, which would probably take the better part of a decade and the guy has shit to do.

Sadly it just shows that FOSSie flag wavers don't know WTF they are talking about and wildly wave the flag but if you had bothered to even do the tiniest bit of research before talking out your ass you'd see the majority of Linux besides the kernel has ALREADY gone GPL V3, hence why there isn't a single distro in the over 500 on distrowatch, not a single one, that is GPL V2 only. Or do you think they can magically build an entire gaming OS with nothing but a kernel?