It's a matter of principle to me. Companies should be happy enough that they recieve your business, but to take that one step further and take away features that were once included with the initial investment is not right. If Nintendo for instance withdrew BC or SD card support from the Wii, I'd be very angry at Nintendo.

Consumers already have to worry about if what they are purchasing is worth their hard earned money, but now they have to worry about that value decreasing with features potentially being removed in the future. Not that this removing of other OS is a huge deal by itself, but it does show that companies are willing to do this sort of thing, which makes you wonder, where does the line get drawn?

A. sold it in January. (Almost 3 months now)

B. I actually had a ps3 at one time so doesn't put me in the same position as the person I quoted.

C. Even if I didn't... why would I let a feature effect me like the guy a quoted. Thus the "I'm extremely happy" part. He should be extremely happy as I am.  But there are more reasons than not letting something effect me that doesnt concern me on why I am happy.

BTW - https://post.craigslist.org/manage/1577218194/fsef4

PS3 will be fully hacked and customizable in 6 months because of Sony's move. That was a brilliant strategy.

1. Well, you seem to have a lot more to say about Sony then Nintendo. Don't think just because you don't have a PS3 badge below your bname people will think you aren't biased

2. Yes, it does. You supposedly don't have a PS3. It affects you the same amount as him 

3. You are sitting in this thread handing down judgements from your pedestal to people that actually have PS3's (Joesampson). So you need to stop talking nonsense 

I'll take that bet. Oct 1st is the dead line.

I think it will blow over by April 8th just like FW 2.4 when all the ps3 fanboys started boycotting sony. I guess with this new FW the rest of them will start boycotting Sony also. Sony will lose its entire fanbase with these 2 updates and no one will buy Ps3's or games for ps3 anymore starting today. Next weeks numbers will show a -250k number for ps3's row because everyone who bought a ps3 this week will return it

theres a lot more to say about sony than nintendo. Nintendo is nintendo and always has been nintendo.

BTW: My opinion on the situation is let the people actually affected by this worry about this. Its hard for me to care about "big corporations screwing the little guy" (LOL) when people who dont really care about it are just jumping on the bandwagon just as a reason to complain about Sony. And yes, I think most of these people don't care that sony removed the feature.

Obviously my opinion has nothing to do with the feature thus allowing me to voice it and not being hypocritical.

It has nothing to do with Geohot or this whole thing. It would of started anyways when they removed the feature from the Slim but with the added press I am sure a few more people are likely to start work on it. It really isn't much of a bet really I am fairly sure by August pirates will be ripping ISOs onto HD for play back but its basically gonna start because someone is gonna want to run inux on their. If you think that people don't you are kidding yourself.

The first thing that happens before any hack is the Linux geeks run unauthorized Linux. These are not basement geeks. I know a few they probably make 4 times your salary. They like to drive BMWs and run Linux on there toasters. They of course share everything they know because they can't help themselves they love talking tech and tinkering with things.

Its the script kiddies who do the damage They know just enough to carry the lessons learned from loading unauthorized linux on something to circumvent DRM on games. 

Nothing you just said concerns me or what I said....

And nothing you said concerns him. =/

But he is right. Now the challenge is there. They will work full force to put Linux back on the PS3. Then it isn't going to stop there :D