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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK no, and we probably never will. But we do have glimpses into it, such as this article saying Valve directly paid >100 devs to work on Linux compat:

Griffais says the company is also directly paying more than 100 open-source developers to work on the Proton compatibility layer, the Mesa graphics driver, and Vulkan, among other tasks like Steam for Linux and Chromebooks.

I would imagine they still pay outside, open source devs to work on those initiatives, though maybe not as many since they've gotten past the initial push.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

AFAIK no, and we probably never will

They just might, open source financing is good PR. 100 is a fair bit more than i thought, thanks for the source.