After having dropped out of Harvard University[2] Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire". Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows".[3] Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft to found Valve in 1996.[3] He and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life.
Do not fall into this! Do not use Steam or any Valve products! Newell is ex-Microsoft employee who was "put off" to destroy free software movement by only releasing Steam for Windows. There is no Linux version! And you know why? Because Valve works with Microsoft to increase and keep Windows market share and so that no one would try better OS like Linux.
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After having dropped out of Harvard University[2] Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire". Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows".[3] Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft to found Valve in 1996.[3] He and Harrington used their money to fund Valve through the development of Half-Life.
Do not fall into this! Do not use Steam or any Valve products! Newell is ex-Microsoft employee who was "put off" to destroy free software movement by only releasing Steam for Windows. There is no Linux version! And you know why? Because Valve works with Microsoft to increase and keep Windows market share and so that no one would try better OS like Linux.