I totally misunderstood then. I thought the regretting part was due to asking a technical question and bracing for technical explanation. Judging from the development of the whole mess, we'll probably know soon enough, whether we like it or not.

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Quoting: Sakuretsu

Antheas (Antheas Kapenekakis), who was previously part of the Bazzite team and creator of the Handheld Daemon project, but ended up being kicked out due to "repeated violations of our Code of Conduct".

Maybe I'm going to regret asking but what did that guy do?

Making software and hardware working together, which is actually quite hard, very technical and a bit boring.
For example, it makes so that Linux can connect to the internet on an handeld with some wifi modem and antenna but unusual linking or that the software you use can access the position of the analogues sticks.

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Quoting: scaineInteresting not at the end where Antheas claims that Bazzite can now never be attached to hardware officially. Not sure I understood the why of that.

From what I understood, Antheas claims part ownership of the brand and will block attempts to change the trademark rule to allow its use by hardware vendor. But I'm unsure about this.

Credential abuse/mishandling does not legally give Kyle the ability to trademark Bazzite or take this kind of decision. In fact, it would be hard trademark Bazzite now, as it is contaminated through my involvement, a lot of which is public and unretractable, and poor handling thereafter. This legal murkiness (pre-existing to an extent) is part of the reason I will be focusing my efforts elsewhere. The Bazzite mark can only be used non-commercially from now on and not e.g. sold moving forward otherwise we will need to have a follow-up discussion.

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The Linux way of technical debate at its peak. 😇

I wish I could pick a side, but I don't really understand what it entails. Seems to be about input being managed from the kernel or the userspace or something like that.

Thanks for the coverage.

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Shouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

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The games become abandonware when they are no longer commercially distributed so they will be free.

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I love technical article on Linux. I understand maybe half the words used, but I still get the feeling of the unstoppable march of progress.

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Now I see your point. Your disputing that the scene is problematic. I dont want to reactivate anyone trauma so discussion of the scene is under spoiler.

Spoiler, click me

I think that sexualisation of minor is so abhorrent that even a hint is not acceptable. And a child riding a naked adult is a not very subtle hint. Riding someone naked have sexual undertone all over the world.

The scene had no artistic value according to the faq, so the devs removed it as it was detrimental to their narration and it cause their game to be rejected by steam (it is only implicit in the faq so you may dispute the causality there). And now they are capitalizing on their wrongdoing for marketing.

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Then let's agree to disagree.
I am talking of the scene that have caused Horses to be rejected by steam and was then removed. Your sentence

and never contained any scenes where a child was shown in connection with anything sexual.

is incorrect according to Horses faq.

I may be biased due to the cultural context. France went from very tolerant to mixing sexuality with minor to extremely hostile in the last few years due to a storm of chocking revelations and high-profile cases. There was way worse than Antichrist dating from 2009. The opinion have shifted sharply and a film with a similar scene would struggle to be projected at Cannes in 2026. I have read a ton of testimony of survivors of abuse that were published in the press, so the subject become touchy for me.

The points that I tried to pass, maybe badly as I'am not a native English speaker was that the rejection of the game that was sent to steam is unsurprising considering steam rule which are, in my mind, very relaxed.
The debate did go on should steam rules be even more relaxed. But the debate I expected is whether Steam should provide a second chance with its selection process. And I think that it should not in such a case. If they really wanted to ship the scene, they should have followed steam rules and provided a patch like most Japanese eroge.

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A horror movie with the same scene that got the game rejected by steam would have caused its authors to be sent to jail, though.

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