<story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayoone</author><text>While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x&lt;p&gt;In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>Well, their motives aren&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;sinister&lt;/i&gt;, which is all you can really want or hope for. In a capitalistic market, vanishingly few players will switch to Linux out of altruism.&lt;p&gt;Which is perfectly fine, in my opinion. Everything is more predictable when each player acts in their own best interests. Then it&amp;#x27;s just a matter of understanding their incentives.</text></comment>
<story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kayoone</author><text>While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x&lt;p&gt;In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Skoofoo</author><text>Before Windows 8, Valve seemingly couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about Linux! It bothers me how Valve tries to make itself out to be Linux&amp;#x27;s best friend nowadays. They also talk about open source a lot despite them ever releasing only proprietary software.</text></comment>