Absolutely no problem in theory. But when it’s a major company, such minor issues often have to be decided by a board. Reports need to be written, and there are procedures that more often than not can take months, just to be sure hasty decisions aren’t made, and that no single person can be held responsible if something goes wrong.
Everybody needs to have their back clear.
Comment on Steam Frame gets kernel-level CD-ROM support a day after a community member asked for it
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours agoI mean, it’s the linux kernel.
They started out by disabling all the stuff they don’t need. and enabling some modules back in again is literally just a line of config
Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
azdle@news.idlestate.org 2 hours ago
Lol, no. Not at any company. If the board at any major company hears the words “CDROM kernel module” something as gone horrifically wrong.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s super cool that valve can make changes as fast as they do. But there’s no way that kind of decision makes to to the board.
– Someone who made kernel param changes at a subsidiary of Samsung.
bitfucker@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Until you realize that valve engineering team has a mostly flat structure. So even their time to ship can be cut down because there’s not a lot of middle manager
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Which only confirms my original comment. It’s cool they can make it so fast, having a flat structure is the reason.
But you would be very unlikely to see something similar from Microsoft or Apple.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
“deckard-linux-no-oopsies” is a fun name.