• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      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.