huseyinkeles

17 hours ago
That’s what happens when you don’t need to please the shareholders.

charcircuit

16 hours ago
Google has contributed more to open source than Valve while being a public company. It's not just Valve who sponsor open source work.

ozarkerD

15 hours ago
Valve employs like <400 people
They seem to be skimping out on their contributions to FFmpeg.

charcircuit

15 hours ago
Google has contributed many patches to ffmpeg. Valve has contributed 0 as far as I am aware.

Dylan16807

14 hours ago
They aren't. Sometimes headlines are misleading.
But what percentage of what Google has produced has been Free Software vs what percentage of what Valve has produced? Google may have produced more Free Software, but Google also produces way more things.

sabellito

16 hours ago
I'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.
That's very true, and I didn't realize it until you just said it.
If you think publicly-held companies are bad, wait until you see what private equity gets up to.