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I am taken aback a bit by this characterisation: And then a bunch of the community responded as petulant children and Sony supported linux in public, peop
by hyperman1 7y ago
I am taken aback a bit by this characterisation:
And then a bunch of the community responded as petulant children and
Sony supported linux in public, people bought their hardware for it, and then, without warning, sony janked the rug from under them. Of course people tried to take back their hardware, for which they paid. The blame here is 100% on Sony.
Sony has a massive internal conflict of interest by being both a content creator and a hardware provider. They sabotage their own products to the detriment of their customers again and again.
Sony worked with the community for a few years, and had the longest unhacked console to show for it. Then They slapped the community in the face and paid dearly for it, as the should. Sony should beg the community for another chance.
- wmf 7y agoI have a feeling that many people who complained were not affected because they either never used Linux or they only used Linux and could just not upgrade. I understand that in theory Sony should have fixed their hypervisor bugs and kept OtherOS working, but I also understand that the world isn't perfect.
- Gracana 7y agoWhy would many people complain if they were not affected? That seems like an odd conspiracy theory.
- thanatropism 7y agohttp://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org
- deogeo 7y agoIf you wait till you're affected, it's too late. Take secure boot for example - should we wait until there are no computers on the market where the user can unlock it, before we complain? Because that's what it would take for someone intent on buying an unlockable computer to be affected. You can apply this to any other infringement on freedom.
- grogenaut 7y agoWhen you have a legitimate beef or problem with someone, you don't take illegitimate and illegal actions against them. I'm all for reverse engineering. That's fine. Extorting a company by threatening them with release of an exploit if you don't get your way is not legitimate, that's blackmail or extortion. All of the hackers attacking Sony for months, disabling PSN, is not legitimate, and should never have been supported by anyone. Just let the courts handle it like they should and did.
- monksy 7y ago> illegal actions against them What's illegal about reverse engineering a physical product you sell to someone? > Disabling psn Are you kidding me? The PSN was notriously insecure. Sony didn't give a crap until they were embarassed.
- grogenaut 7y agoRead my post. Reverse engineering legal and to me moral. Extorting a company with a threat of release of a thing to get what you want: extortion and illegal. This was done by people around hots. Agreed: psn was insecure. Hacking is still illegal. By taking these actions we lost the moral high ground as hackers. The class action by itself would be just fine
- monksy 7y agoThe class action only happened because it was hacked. Sony just threw up it's hands and said "we don't care" until they were forced to.
- rat9988 7y ago>you don't take illegitimate and illegal actions against them. What sony did is illegal.
- grogenaut 7y agoThat is what courts are for not viglante action
- eitland 7y ago> Sony supported linux in public, people bought their hardware for it, and then, without warning, sony janked the rug from under them. Of course people tried to take back their hardware, for which they paid. The blame here is 100% on Sony. I hadn't bought any Sony hardware at that moment so IIRC I just decided right there and then that there was no reason to send money Sonys way or feel sorry for them. First Sony console I bought was a used PS3 sometime after PS4 was released. And I was enthusiastic about PS when they first released the console with Linux support. I guess I'm not the only one.