People are underestimating how much money valve has put into proton, Mesa and Linux development over the years to make the steam deck work. they had 100+ developers on payroll for years to do that.
How much money did Valve put in? Where do those 100+ devs come from?
Improperly redacted documents from the initial Wolfire case — later hidden — indicated that Valve had only 336 staff in 2021, with just 79 of them working on Steam. We’ve remade it using data reported contemporaneously:
You made it sound like they had 100+ full time employees specifically („payroll”) but it could also mean they paid €1 bounties to 101 people. I know they subcontracted Proton to CodeWeavers (~50 people) who have been working on Wine for ~20 years by then.
People are underestimating how much money valve has put into proton, Mesa and Linux development over the years to make the steam deck work. they had 100+ developers on payroll for years to do that.
How much money did Valve put in? Where do those 100+ devs come from?
these were external developers. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20221219-steam-valve-support-proton-mesa
You made it sound like they had 100+ full time employees specifically („payroll”) but it could also mean they paid €1 bounties to 101 people. I know they subcontracted Proton to CodeWeavers (~50 people) who have been working on Wine for ~20 years by then.