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by ethbr1 13 days ago
And as the TCO enterprise adage goes: the cost of continued support.

It's one thing to value ones own time spent supporting something at $0, but most people probably shouldn't.

And it's incredibly inefficient to debug and maintain your own custom stack, when Valve can assign a team to do the same thing at orders of magnitude lower unit cost for standardized hardware/software configurations.