[ydl-gen] Sony sued over removal of Linux support from PS3

[Sam Lummis]

I agree to an extent. However I understand from Sonys perspective their
console was not made as a cheap alternative for Cell programmers to use but
as a piece of consumer electronics which they sell at a loss in order to
make money off software and in my opinion this allows greater control over
their hardware opposed to a PC. I initially bought my launch PS3 instead of
an Xbox simply because it had the OtherOS functionality and I enjoy
programming and the Linux OS. Essentially I don't feel abused by Sony by the
update, they'd already taken the functionality out of the new PS3's and if I
you want to continue using the feature you can simply not update to the new
feature and you can continue using the old firmware along with a proxy to
access the PSN if you still use it.

My question about YDL's continued support is if a relatively easy softmod is
released at some point if they will exploit the new found hardware access?


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Mike Birlew <wrythen at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I whole heartedly agree with you.  I don't see how anyone on this thread
> could disagree, yld is why were here.  If they get away with this, I fear as
> others do, that this will allow a wave of abuse by companies downgrading
> your product after they have advertised it as something else.  All in the
> name of Intellectual Property and unconscionable EUA's.  I'm seriously
> expecting to see a "power of attorney" clause in one of these someday.
>
>
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Normally I wish people well... but I hope Sony has to pay for their
>> bait & switch. The PS3 has been fantastic for games and movies, but
>> its main appeal (for geeks like me) was as a Cell programming
>> workstation. My army of PowerMacs is no longer supported, but at least
>> Apple didn't remotely disable them! Or turn them into iTunes Music
>> Store kiosks. That's essentially what Sony has done.
>>
>> Mike Erwin
>> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Kai Staats <kai at overthesun.com> wrote:
>> > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/playstation-linux/
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