“Valve understands that, because in a recent chat with the Verge, Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned that the company is paying over a hundred open-source devs to work on the various bits of software that keep the Steam Deck ticking.”
Over a hundred paid open source developers on Mesa, Proton and the rest. It’s not charity. Valve wants an escape hatch from Microsoft. The result is still the best thing to happen to Linux gaming, and it happened because one company wrote checks instead of blog posts.