>Why did they ever offer OtherOS in the first place, if not "cartering" to my small group? The common belief is that's it was done to bypass EU tariffs on game

>Why did they ever offer OtherOS in the first place, if not "cartering" to my small group? The common belief is that's it was done to bypass EU tariffs on game systems by representing PS3 as a computer (same thing they tried to do with PS2 and a bundled BASIC interpreter). I don't support that theory and think that Sony believed that there are more people interested in homebrew on Playstation. After all, they had Net Yaroze and PS2 Linux on previous systems. I guess somebody thought that it's because of the additional cost of the previous solutions the homebrew did not take off.