But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.

  • CALIGVLA
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    262 years ago

    Considering Gabe is ex-microsoft and wants to distance himself as much as possible from them, I highly doubt that’d work, he’d go down fighting at the very least.

    • ampersandrew
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      362 years ago

      No need to go down fighting. Valve is a private company. They can just say no.

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      Does he want to distance himself? Gabe said he learned more in his short months-long tenure at MS than he did in the rest of his academic career. He dropped out of Harvard, mind you.

      He modeled his entire company off of MS. He even adopted their primary strategy, buy, polish and package. It’s literally just embrace, extend, extinguish all over. Balmer taught him very well.

      I really don’t get why people think he’s all that different from any other billionaire. He got there by buying out competition, and if they wouldn’t sell, theft and litigation.

      • CALIGVLA
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        22 years ago

        Not saying he’s different from other rich people, but Valve developing both SteamOS and Proton is a clear message they don’t want to rely on Microsoft and their software.