Sony to answer Geohot's hack by removing other OS support ?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Lightning_24 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Lightning_24 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Lightning_24 said:

Euphoria14 said:

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

Don't blame Sony, blame hackers. I wouldn't expect anything less from Sony. I would do the same thing.

This logic should be followed also to ban private firearms, then. Why, instead, it's followed only when it favours industries' interests?

I have no Idea what you just said. Maybe speak stupid so I can.

Quite easy: other OS mode is used for legit purpose but also for piracy? Let's remove it.

Private firearms are used for self defense, but also for killing sprees? Let's ban them.

Uhm, those are two very completely different things and can't be compared. One you have the loss of a life the other you have the loss of doing other things on a PS3. Besides this is one company for the PS3, you have many companies that make firearms and they would have to be the ones who stop. Anyways that is more of a political thing not something as trivial as other OS. 

They already removed other OS in the Slims this really shouldn't be that big of a deal I think. But I guess I never use it so it doesn't bother me if it happens.

Yes, I know, it was to show that if you stick to the principle of forbidding or stopping producing whatever is used ALSO for wrong purposes, you should stop doing anything. Whole stockfish was sometimes used as a club during brawls, in my town, should we ban it?

What's different, as you point out, is that here it's a single company decision on one of their products, that's fine, but to stop a single obscure exploit, that could have been done with a patch, they hurt and piss off a lot of honest users. It's the same criticism raised against some DRM systems, MS Product Activation, etc, but in this case there isn't just an uncomfortableness like in most of those cases, instead a feature is completely removed.

Oh well. maybe, if IBM is still interested too in the Cell, it will provide cheap HW kits and low end WS to developers, but right now PS3 is the only complete Cell system at low end PC price, the other choices are specialized embedded systems, coprocessing PCI cards or workstations, servers, blade units for clusters and computing nodes for supercomputers, all a lot more expensive than a PS3.