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Can anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossible (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But they don't have a monopoly...they just provide a superior product. Anyone can open another marketplace up, a lot have. There are no laws saying they can't and valve has never tried to suggest they can't.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    They're still a de-facto monopoly.

    Windows is a de-facto monopoly, and there are stuff where Windows is still better than Linux. I actually worked with Linux API, and while the base Posix stuff are okay-ish, others make you appreciate the COM interfaces on Windows.

    "Oh, just use SDL!" SDL abstracts away a lot of things.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    altr

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I could do the same with operating systems too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    If you made the same thing with operating systems it'd just be a 20 pages of Microsoft shooting itself while Apple hits some crack in the background. All this being watched by a swarm of penguins eating popcorn.

    I wish I had the artistic talent to make this.

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