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Valve does seem to be one of the rare companies that can learn from other companies mistakes and this was an expensive lesson Sony learned. The original PS3 was sold with the ability to run Linux as a selling point and was sold at a loss to get it and Blu-ray players into households. Unfortunately, the US Government realized they could build a super computer by connecting a bunch of PS3s together and it was the cheapest way to do so. Obviously the government super computer wasn't buying Grand Theft Auto so subsequent PS3s were shipped without that ability
In a world where components are being purchased a year before they're built I don't fault Valve for trying to avoid getting fleeced