Most PS3 owners care about playing games, watching DVDs, maybe playing some streaming media, etc. As long as those things work, they'll have no interest in who

Most PS3 owners care about playing games, watching DVDs, maybe playing some streaming media, etc. As long as those things work, they'll have no interest in who actually controls the machine. They'll certainly have no interest in hacking the guts of the console to turn it into a flaky general purpose computer. There's a good chance they already have plenty of those around. And since they get no utility from the hacks but do pay some costs, it seems perfectly rational to pick the "wrong" side from your perspective. Which isn't to say that Sony has handled this well: they're still incompetent and Evil.