<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></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Also of note, at the end:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation [1], a nonprofit consortium founded by AMD, ARM, Qualcomm and Samsung, among others to develop open-standard specifications for parallel computing, and startup Cloudius Systems are also joining the Linux Foundation today.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]:&lt;a href=&quot;http://hsafoundation.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hsafoundation.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</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></parent_chain><comment><author>casca</author><text>It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that&amp;#x27;s not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Valve&amp;#x27;s game list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.valvesoftware.com&amp;#x2F;games&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>