Just think of the impact if Stream were to offer
LibreOffice?
It might be very nice, and would probably be a boost
to adoption.
But maybe Valve would have their own "special" version of
LibreOffice, which you'd have to pay for. And maybe you'd have to be signed in
to Steam (which you have to pay for separately) to edit or even access your
documents, which might even be restricted to Valve's cloud service (like saved
games are now for many Steam games). And just maybe you'd have to pay Valve all
over again if you used a different PC to access your docs.
We should all
keep in mind that Valve are not not moving Steam to Linux because they're FOSS
pioneers, but because they think it's a good business decision (i.e., for the
$$$$). Their business model very much depends on a monetizeable
degree of lock-in, and thinking that they wouldn't insist on extending that
lock-in to anything they touch seems a bit naive to me. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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