Something Awful has written a paragraph on the first part of STOMPED's interviews with goose and cl30f. Remember the where Gooseman talks about "selling out" to Valve? Well here's what Lowtax thinks.
I sell out for love or chocolate cookies, shut up.I find it so interesting that people began referring to them as "sell outs" just because they started getting cash from Valve, and actually had the gall to use it in a negative context. Folks, believe it or not, you WANT people like the Counterstrike team to "sell out." This is a good thing. It means the team can now afford to concentrate more on their project and add more resources to it. It results in you getting a better, more refined product. "Selling out" is the goal here, because people who put a ton of hard work into their product are finally rewarded and can continue doing what they love to do.