The Arch Linux team has announced on its public mailing list that it will be entering into a direct collaboration with Valve.

As primary Arch Linux developer Levente Polyak discloses in the announcement post, “Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.”

Polyak continues, “This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors […] We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on the mailing list as work progresses.”

These quotes go to show how bigger corporations like Valve can still be a helpful, desirable influence in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community. While the rules of FOSS dictate that Valve was under no obligation whatsoever to give back to the community in any way, it’s had a great track record so far through Proton and is now directly funding the continued development of Arch Linux, which forms the foundation of its own SteamOS 3 operating system. It’s true that volunteers in FOSS make that part of the tech world go round, but it’s always nice when these projects can actually afford to pay people to get the work that needs to be done for the rest of our enjoyment.

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    17 hours ago

    Still very early days, yes. R2modman supports more games also.

    It’s definitely helpful for games to support their own modders also, and I can understand why most don’t put in the effort.

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        https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/ebkr/r2modman/v/3.1.45/

        Edit, for convenience:

        • Risk of Rain Returns
        • Hades II
        • Among Us
        • Ale & Tale Tavern
        • Screw Drivers
        • Nine Sols
        • Goodbye Volcano High
        • Gloomwood
        • Below the Stone
        • Back to the Dawn
        • Supermarket Together
        • Betrayal Beach
        • Arcus Chroma
        • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
        • Gladio Mori
        • Slipstream: Rogue Space
        • Panicore
        • Magicraft
        • Another Crab’s Treasure
        • Bopl Battle
        • Vertigo 2
        • Against the Storm
        • Lycans
        • Castle Story
        • Balatro
        • Content Warning
        • Plasma
        • Palworld
        • Voices of the Void
        • Cult of the Lamb
        • 20 Minutes Till Dawn
        • Sailwind
        • Meeple Station
        • Void Crew
        • Cities: Skylines II
        • Lethal Company
        • DREDGE
        • Last Train Outta’ Wormtown
        • Wizard With a Gun
        • Atomicrops
        • Erenshor
        • Sunkenland
        • Wizard of Legend
        • Will You Snail?
        • Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
        • Techtonica
        • Thronefall
        • We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie
        • Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
        • Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
        • Sun Haven
        • Wild Frost
        • Shadows of Doubt
        • Receiver 2
        • The Planet Crafter
        • Patch Quest
        • Shadows Over Loathing
        • West of Loathing
        • RUMBLE
        • Dome Keeper
        • Skul: The Hero Slayer
        • Sons Of The Forest
        • The Ouroboros King

        (Emphasis mine, one of them humorous. There’s more, but formatting this on my phone is tedious and frustrating.)