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Explain. I get the reference, so not that.
Valve is a capitalist company, aiming for profit.
They were heavily involved into establishing DRM in the video gaming world.
They were among the first to establish "FreeToPlay", Lootboxes and whaling, a predatory business tactic.
They accepted right wing extremist games in the past.
They have a kind of monopolist web store for PC games.
They are known to use the embrace and suffocate tactic against community projects in the past (DotA, once a community driven project is now a trademark of Valve).
The linux gaming scene is flourishing, but this comes at the price of dependency. And not all this dependencies can be resolved at the will of the community; many of the users that came over in the last time are probably unable to start a binary without help.
Its a Private Company which is not focused to gain Profit because Investors push to. That is true for literally every other company that has Investors.
Valve has a Money Machine and mostly don't care for the next big Profit. They create creative things and behave human in my Opinion.
MARS is also a private company and has a section for child and slave labor on the Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_Incorporated#Child_labor_and_slave_labor
ZF is a private company and produces weapons.
As I already said, Valve has a history of unethical and predatory business tactics. Do you suppose they do these for fun? (and would this improve things in your opinion?)
Private companies are market participants and have to act in their interest, or go eventually down. Valve wants to make revenue with their investments. The Linux community is at best a vehicle, and at worst a target to them.
Good points tbh