most likely, although by now they also may be employees of valve. but valve is also working with codeweaver.
btw: i consider codeweaver somewhat the unsung hero of the linux desktop.
there is no other company in this world that stakes their success entirely on the success of the linux desktop, or maybe on the demise on the windows desktop, because wine is the only software tool that will never ever be useful running on windows.
> wine is the only software tool that will never ever be useful running on windows
Intel was actually including Wine code in their Arc graphics drivers to translate DirectX 9 calls to Vulkan, because they didn't have performant native DirectX 9 drivers. It's a pretty common trick for Arc users to drop the latest DXVK DLL into the directory of a game that is having issues with the graphics card.
Using Wine DLLs is also a good way to resurrect games built on the obsolete DirectDraw API on modern versions of Windows.
btw: i consider codeweaver somewhat the unsung hero of the linux desktop.
there is no other company in this world that stakes their success entirely on the success of the linux desktop, or maybe on the demise on the windows desktop, because wine is the only software tool that will never ever be useful running on windows.