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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It is always these darn valve engineers! Why are they so good?!

[–] Quetzalcutlass 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If Valve's Employee Handbook is to be believed, they don't use a formal project structure with static teams. Instead each developer works on whatever project interests them, and one of Valve's current goals is to improve game performance on Linux/AMD by contributing to upstream open source projects.

Valve is as close as we've gotten to someone paying a bunch of industry veterans to contribute to open source. It's amazing what happens when all innovation isn't black-boxed in an internal repository and forgotten about.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 20 points 1 week ago

I suspect that it's mostly that they're the only ones who care.

[–] Nalivai 17 points 1 week ago

Valve directly profiting from all those games being available on their platform. Them helping out is a win-win-win situation.