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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[–] 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