FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves.

I guarantee that most contributors who aren’t being paid are doing their commits out of spite, but I can definitely applaud them for being as vindictive as they are.

I understand what you were saying now, when I read it before, it presented as one point(“please the share holders”) rather than your intended meaning.

I tend to agree that company backed projects go to shit after the shareholders get involved, but while there is nothing stopping Valve from doing an IPO in the future, they are currently a privately held company. This means they have no irrational share holders to appease. I surmize that this is the main reason why the Valve does nothing and wins meme exists because unlike most other corporations, Valve has the luxury of doing nothing.

a unified defensive pact

Wouldn’t this be covered by article 42.7 of the EU charter?

I am very much the same with locking the system manually, and on KDE it is the same as the windows shortcut ie Super + L