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Valve Offers Free Subscription To Debian Developers: Paying It Forward
sfcrazy writes "Valve Software, the makers of Steam OS, is already winning praise from the larger free and open source community – mainly because of their pro-community approach. Now the company is 'giving back' to Debian by offering free subscription to Debian developers. This subscription will offer full access to current and future games produced by Valve. Since Steam OS is based on Debian GNU/Linux it's a nice way for Valve to say 'thank you' to Debian developers."
Yeah, because steam et al. are right there forcing you to install them on your system aren't they.
By the way, Debian, at it's core, strives to be the "Universal OS"- kind of hard to be that when your users aren't so much as "allowed" to install those "horribad" non-free things.
Even if the Debian team removed the self hosted non-free repos and let developers host it off site, how do you trust the packages? Who do you think would get the blame if any unsavory packages made it into the repos?
There would be egg on Debians face no matter what, after all Debian devs where hosting the site.
FOSS stuff is cool, it's awesome that if you want you can release your stuff for others to work on. But RMS can design an open sourced spoon to eat my ass when it comes to his rabid idealism that that is how the world absolutely has to be.
To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password!