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1) Sony uses open source, they do like it. PS2 and PS3 could run Linux. 2) Sony-Ericsson already makes the Xperia line of Android phones. The Playstation phone
by pedanticfreak 16y ago
1) Sony uses open source, they do like it. PS2 and PS3 could run Linux.
2) Sony-Ericsson already makes the Xperia line of Android phones. The Playstation phone is the same thing, with buttons.
3) Sony has another strategic partnership with Google Android in its new line of Google TV enabled televisions and Blu-ray players.
- pornel 16y agoI don't agree with the first point. You can run Linux on almost anything. Sony recently dropped and deliberately blocked Linux support on PS3.
- pedanticfreak 16y agoSony may not meet your standards for always being in the spirit of open source. But they do use a lot of open source and have shown a heck of a lot more support for open source and open standards than other device companies. Besides. Compared to the rest of the Android OS field, Sony fits right in. Take what you can get for free and don't give back any more than necessary.
- thebooktocome 16y agoPS2 Linux support was a massive joke -- they forced linux development to be perfectly orthogonal to the rest of the system, and I don't think anything that separates the PS2 from the typical desktop made it into open source (i.e., GPU drivers, and so on). PS3 Linux support was retroactively revoked via firmwear update mere months after launch.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y ago"mere months"? I had my PS3 for over two years before Sony pulled the plug on OtherOS support, and I didn't even buy my PS3 at launch...
- thebooktocome 16y agoIndignance must have tempered memory.
- metageek 16y agoDatapoint re 1): the Sony Reader line is built on Linux. Not particularly open, though, since you can't modify anything. (There was some hacking done on the 500 and 505, but later models lack the firmware updater.)