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Valve launches SteamOSValve launches SteamOSPosted Sep 24, 2013 6:47 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by lamawithonel Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS
It's certainly not quite the Free Software ideas of freedom and openness, as one of the more significant features of Steam is DRM. Games don't actually have to use the DRM features, but almost all of them do.
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Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 24, 2013 7:18 UTC (Tue) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]
None of these "features" require OS support as far as I'm aware (Steam on Linux doesn't need any special privileged bits to work, Steam on Windows seems pretty standalone, etc). Their model has not required platform-level DRM and hopefully they're not going to change directions on that. It's a big headache that doesn't actually "solve" piracy, and they haven't needed it so far, so I'd be surprised if they decided they needed it now.
Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 24, 2013 18:23 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Yes, I wasn't implying anything otherwise.
But it makes it clear that there are some limits to the openness.
I rather expect the platform to be pretty much entirely transparent, but we'll see.
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