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We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux.

These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    Wolfire estimated that Valve had roughly 360 employees (a number likely sourced from Valve itself in 2016) and that per-employee profit was around $15 million per year.

    Even if that $15 million number isn’t exactly right, Valve, in its public employee handbook, says that “our profitability per employee is higher than that of Google or Amazon or Microsoft.” A document from the Wolfire lawsuit revealed Valve employees discussing just how much higher — though the specific number for Valve employees is redacted.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/13/24197477/valve-employs-few-hundred-people-payroll-redacted

    If you don’t want to be insulted than don’t blindly dick ride a corporation.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      You are grade A braindead. Once again, that is not the employee salary. That is how fucken Gabe is buying yachts. Jfc, go take a business class or swipe a Business for Dumbies at a bookstore. Thats how much each of their employees makes them. Not how much each of their employees are personally paid.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        Great! So in the context of the conversation, you then agree with me that Valve is an even worse company, that’s definitely not worthy of praise since they can afford to make all their employees multimillionaires but instead keep it for themselves.

        Glad we can agree on the entire fucking point of this thread: that Valve is a greedy company not worth praising or dick riding.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          No, we dont agree. Valve is an okay company. There is not a single company that will do what you are wanting. It doesnt happen in our society of hierarchies and wealth incentives. The only thing I was saying, is that is not what they get paid.

          • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            Congrats then on making a bold pedantic claim that you can’t actually back up and is based on nothing.

            Big round of applause for yourself. I’m sure the Valve software engineers who know how profitable they are happily accept lower salaries than their counterparts at Amazon and Meta. Such wisdom.

            • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              3 months ago

              I sent you proof. Twice. I did my part. You keep on ignoring and being an asshole though.