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That Whataboutism is Not really relevant to the lawsuit.
Just because they made someone useful to expand their control over the games industry, that you happen to like, doesn't mean them abusing their monopoly position isn't still bad.
>Open source, publicly available tool to aid in Linux adoption
>"some[thing] to expand their control over the games industry"
Found the Sweeney fanboy. Just because Timmy-boy can't install kernel-level malware on Linux doesn't mean Gabe Newell is going to use it to conquer the Earth, bud.
Why are you acting like there aren't steam games with additional drm?
Steam doesn't require DRM to publish on their platform.
Neither does epic.
No, but they publicly say that they won't support Linux because they WANT to be able to put kernel level malware. Whereas steam does not. They are not equal in this respect.