"We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."
  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    as if newell is the guy doing all the work

    He’s the one who makes all the decisions. That’s what matters here.

    proton and steamos would be nowhere today without the decades of work by the WINE/DXVK contributors

    And Proton wouldn’t exist at all without Valve.

    all valve did was add their proprietary client on top of that

    That’s completely false.

    that work was done by valve employees and contributors, not the billionaire

    The billionaire is the one who told them to do it.

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          proton without newell is proton, but with maybe a different direction

          proton without valve’s workers and WINE/DXVK contributors is nothing. it’s literally nothing.

          the same goes for basically any projects. the billionaire CEOs are (sometimes, not even always!) the people who take decisions. everyone else does the work. without the CEOs, the same projects would have decisions taken in other ways. without the workers, there would be nothing.

          stop licking billionaire boots.