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by diesal11 1004 days ago
I'm pretty sure they outsource/fund a fairly large amount of the work, the article mentions Igalia & from memory Codeweavers are largely responsible for Proton.

Valve itself is a pretty small shop. Although their own efforts & funding absolutely should be praised.

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> I'm pretty sure they outsource/fund a fairly large amount of the work, the article mentions Igalia & from memory Codeweavers are largely responsible for Proton.

Userspace stuff for sure. But the drivers are mostly Valve.

Take a look at the PDF of the talk from the article. There are numerous examples of Igalia contributions to the kernel.
In 2008 they outsource all the kernel work I read