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Well, no. Their practices regarding PMFN are decidedly anti-competitive, and will hopefully end soon.

Big tech platforms are also a sector that's heavily vulnerable to natural monopolies, what with high entry costs, good marginal profits, basically nonexistent marginal costs, and increasing marginal utility thanks to networking effects and industry entrenchment. Valve has certainly benefited from this dynamic, as have other huge tech companies. Fortunately valve sucks a lot less than most tech monopolists since private ownership means they don't face the same pressures from shareholders to enshittify their services to ensure line goes up perpetually. If valve were publicly traded I bet they'd be all-in on some dumbfuck AI initiative and wouldn't have supported linux nearly as hard.

I like Valve, but I can certainly see why someone would call them a monopoly.