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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 93 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Valve has been secretly funding Fex, an open-source project to bring Windows games to ARM, for almost a decade

In this age of leaks and industry insider speculation I'm very impressed they've kept this under wraps for so long

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They have not. I can‘t provide you the link, but it was long speculated that they are working on an ARM device. Also you cannot really hide activity in an open source project. It was just not officially communicated that these changes have been funded by Valve.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 22 points 3 days ago

You cant hide the activity but you can hide the contributors and/or the funding.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 20 points 3 days ago

Sure it's been speculated, but if there were obvious signs like commits in the fex repos by valve employees then wouldn't there have been more than speculation?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Also you cannot really hide activity in an open source project.

You could, if the person was not known to work for the company.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I knew they were finding FEX... But for a decade!? Holy

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 days ago

2015 is now a decade ago 🤷

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I find this very possible that they kept it hidden for so long. After all, Valve has been very tight on leaks for very long. Guess that HL2 dev build leak taught them a fair lot in how to protect their business from leaking info.