Do you think that Steam will become open source in the future?
This applies to the Steam client and possibly the server infrastructure.
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I wouldn't hold my breath. I mean, I'd be all for it but what would motivate Valve to do this?
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Nope. Valve do a lot of open source stuff, but why would they open source the client to directly help competitors? Not likely at all.
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