[ydl-gen] Response of Fixstars to end of ps3 otheros

[Nelson Batalha]

Hi,

> Yes, but the sale of that bootloader must equal the cost of maintaining Linux 
> support internal to Sony, which is surely a multiple person, many hundreds of 
> thousands of dollars annual expense (likely far more).

In the cbe-oss-dev ml Geoff stated that they would continue to support Linux in the old models, so my question is: if they are already paying people to work on it, where is the added cost of allowing the new models to install them? Is the new hardware that different and they would have to work a lot on it? They don't want more people finding bugs so they don't have to hire more staff? 

I know Sony doesn't have to justify this, but it would be a nice if they did, specially to developers who worked on Linux for the ps3 thinking that this console would be supported for 10 years.

 > True. And I apologize, but I know nothing more about this. I am going to ask 
> my contact at Sony if there is a public page which speaks to this in more 
> detail.

Thanks!

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