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Valve has been nice to Linux users, but Sweeny has excellent points. What Apple does is ridiculous, and it's disrespectful to see Valve give the big players better deals than the indie devs.
Epic contributing to Linux would be real nice, but they can't seem to piece together where the vocal minority hold out is coming from.
I generally have to disagree on it being disrespectful. There's an inherent cost in any business relationship that has to be accounted for with low volume partners. Every company that offers volume discounting does it for this exact reason -- the price per piece doesn't change, but the other costs can be spread over more pieces.
Could Valve eat some of this cost to promote indie development? Absolutely. But it's not disrespectful to price your product with volume discounts.