Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Epic is Linux adverse mainly because of its Chinese investors. They don't want to open source their spyware.

[–] hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would they have to open source anything? Just because it’s running on Linux doesn’t mean it’s OSS or even F(L)OSS. Steam isn’t open source either.

[–] Rose@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.

That seems allot more like a one-off, a one time thing.

Also, anyone can view the source code for the open source product.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Nobody with two brain cells says foss can't have spy/malware. What's true is only that in important projects, it is very likely it will raise flags very soon. For example, see your link

[–] nix@merv.news 6 points 9 months ago

That makes literally zero sense. If anything Chinese investors would want the open source operating system to be the most popular since the US is becoming more hostile and banning them from stuff more and more. Its why they’re investing in RISC-V development and the US is considering being hostile towards it for “national security reasons”

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I would think China would be eager to get out of western (USA) dominated Operating Systems.
I know Russia has attempted it as couple of times, but with very little success.