Comment on HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoIt costs more money to hire software devs to make a custom piece of software that needs to be maintained and fully supported with customer service than it sticking SteamOS on it and providing support and having customer service
phuntis@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
pretty sure they don’t even have to pay for an oem licence I’m pretty sure it’s free for them
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You’re probably right that they can put the os on their hardware for free, but I would think they do pay something for the rights to have the “powered by SteamOS” mark. I would bet that valve has some sort of hardware partner criteria to maintain valves image if you use their mark, like their old steam machine program.