No, Valve is privately owned. That means the company does whatever the owners want it to do. Unlike public companies which can be sued by their own shareholders of they don’t pursue profits hard enough.

That’s not to say we should blindly idolize a billionaire, but he and in turn Valve can in fact do things that are friendly to consumers.

8000 people used to high salaries and probably living in or around silicon valley with insane cost of living. I don’t have high hopes for them switching to working on fediverse projects…

This was not a physics experiment, this was an art project.

Why are researchers conducting deadly attacks? Did they get frustrated from doing research?