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It would have been better if Sony had to put the Linux support back in. What good are $55 (after jumping through lots of hoops) if you want to run Linux on your

by Kristine1975 10y ago

It would have been better if Sony had to put the Linux support back in. What good are $55 (after jumping through lots of hoops) if you want to run Linux on your PS3?

deelowe 10y ago
Better for you, not Sony. This was a calculated decision.
wmf 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony couldn't fix their hypervisor. They may have lost the source code, or perhaps the person who wrote it was transferred to the pachinko division.
- rkho 10y ago
  Pretty sure that's Konami you're thinking of :)
ewzimm 10y ago
I would buy Sony products again if they would just allow that functionality again. I still have my PS3 which I used as my primary desktop for a while, and the data is still there, but inaccessible, so it should be sufficient proof. The money is kind of nice, but by now it should be clear that it poses no threat to Sony to allow people to run their own software, especially with the hypervisor intact. I'm not aware of any new vulnerabilities that came up in the last six years because of OtherOS, and people have even managed to get Linux running unofficially on PS4s without causing any problems to Sony's business. Imagine if Apple did something like this and decided to disable Bootcamp on all Macs and make your Windows and Linux installs inaccessible if anyone updated your computer. This is probably the most anti-consumer and anti-developer move I can think of in computing history (although the rootkit Sony CDs were pretty bad too). Sony had a whole developer community working for them for free, making software, supporting their system, and evangelizing for them before they decided to shut them down and even pursue them with legal threats for doing what Sony asked them to do, experiment and create. Even if they somehow can't fix the PS3, just adding some official support for OtherOS on PS4 which uses conventional hardware would send a huge message that they actually care about their fans and would help to counter Microsoft's move opening the Xbox to Windows apps for expanded utility.

It would have been better if Sony had to put the Linux support back in. What good are $55 (after jumping through lots of hoops) if you want to run Linux on your PS3?

deelowe 10y ago

Better for you, not Sony. This was a calculated decision.

wmf 10y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony couldn't fix their hypervisor. They may have lost the source code, or perhaps the person who wrote it was transferred to the pachinko division.

rkho 10y ago
Pretty sure that's Konami you're thinking of :)

ewzimm 10y ago

I would buy Sony products again if they would just allow that functionality again. I still have my PS3 which I used as my primary desktop for a while, and the data is still there, but inaccessible, so it should be sufficient proof. The money is kind of nice, but by now it should be clear that it poses no threat to Sony to allow people to run their own software, especially with the hypervisor intact. I'm not aware of any new vulnerabilities that came up in the last six years because of OtherOS, and people have even managed to get Linux running unofficially on PS4s without causing any problems to Sony's business. Imagine if Apple did something like this and decided to disable Bootcamp on all Macs and make your Windows and Linux installs inaccessible if anyone updated your computer. This is probably the most anti-consumer and anti-developer move I can think of in computing history (although the rootkit Sony CDs were pretty bad too). Sony had a whole developer community working for them for free, making software, supporting their system, and evangelizing for them before they decided to shut them down and even pursue them with legal threats for doing what Sony asked them to do, experiment and create. Even if they somehow can't fix the PS3, just adding some official support for OtherOS on PS4 which uses conventional hardware would send a huge message that they actually care about their fans and would help to counter Microsoft's move opening the Xbox to Windows apps for expanded utility.