• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    Why do we never hear about Mike Harrington? It’s always Gabe Newell.
    Anyways I guess congratulations to them is in order, they’ve done a fantastic job. I only wish they would move the company to Canada or EU. I don’t buy American products or services, the only exception is Steam.

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          So apparently Gabe Newell has absolute power.

          And he runs Valve with an iron fist barely caring what the employees do.

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            Yes they seem to have a very large degree of freedom, which allegedly was also how the Steam for Linux client got started.
            But I think he cares, AFAIK that green-light was granted by Gabe Newell personally.
            He is just not breathing down their neck constantly. Which is the best kind of manager there is.

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              yep. I just wanted to do a contrast based joke, since even though he has “absolute power” the allure of the story of valve is that he behaves in the opposite way.