Just think of the impact if Stream were to offer LibreOffice?

But maybe Valve would have their own "special" version of LibreOffice, which you'd have to pay for. And maybe you'd have to be signed in to Steam (which you have to pay for separately) to edit or even access your documents, which might even be restricted to Valve's cloud service (like saved games are now for many Steam games). And just maybe you'd have to pay Valve all over again if you used a different PC to access your docs.

We should all keep in mind that Valve are not not moving Steam to Linux because they're FOSS pioneers, but because they think it's a good business decision (i.e., for the $$$$). Their business model very much depends on a monetizeable degree of lock-in, and thinking that they wouldn't insist on extending that lock-in to anything they touch seems a bit naive to me.

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