Comment on Steam keeps on winning
hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy would they have to open source anything? Just because it’s running on Linux doesn’t mean it’s OSS or even F(L)OSS. Steam isn’t open source either.
Comment on Steam keeps on winning
hips_and_nips@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy would they have to open source anything? Just because it’s running on Linux doesn’t mean it’s OSS or even F(L)OSS. Steam isn’t open source either.
Rose@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not to mention that open source software can and sometimes does contain spyware.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That seems allot more like a one-off, a one time thing.
Also, anyone can view the source code for the open source product.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nobody with two brain cells says foss can’t have spy/malware. What’s true is only that in important projects, it is very likely it will raise flags very soon. For example, see your link