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this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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The Wine and Proton devs claim that all of the code has been reverse engineered and written from scratch to simply be compatible with the Windows APIs. Unless that claim is false, or Microsoft has a patent over any systems they are recreating (which is unlikely), there’s nothing Microsoft can do legally. If they did have a patent, getting around it probably wouldn’t be too hard.
A similar case was google reimplementing Sun/Oracle Java APIs. Which has been deemed legal after all.
And even if they did, it could only really stop Steam from officially distributing it. There are already people like GloriousEggroll making their own versions of Proton, so realistically it'd probably just become some sort of unofficial underground thing that you can still get from anywhere I'd assume.
Eh, that would kill the steam deck though and then developers wouldn't be testing their games out with it nearly as much. Sure proton would still exist in some capacity but it would be way shittier.