Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, has during a keynote at LinuxCon said that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. Closed platforms would, according to him, can not compete with open platforms.
Previously called Newell Windows 8 a catastrophe. He repeated this again at the LinuxCon: according to him, closed platforms the losses of platforms that are open because that last more innovation allow. He also expects that major players in the pc market, the back will turn, or in any case considerably restructure. A good example is computer manufacturer Dell. That company is already a few years busy with shifting its focus to software and services.
Newell said that Valve is hard at work to use Linux to boost. Valve brought its distribution software, Steam and a lot of games already to the opensourcebesturingssysteem. The company is also already a busy time with the development of a Steam Box console based on Linux, Newell alluded in his speech to an announcement next week. In addition, Valve also contribute to the development of the lldb-debugger, and it works on yet another level debugger for Linux. According to Valve ceo gets the company’s request, often from other developers to hear that they have a debugger for Linux should be developed.