sony's illegal business practice!!!!!!!

[joeorc]

RVDondaPC said:

CommonMan said:
Slowmo beat me to it, but I thought I'd expand. Just because they are removing a feature that "lol who cares? Play games loserz!" doesn't mean it's not kind of a big deal. As slowmo said, by people not making a stink about this, it could embolden them to make another change. Like finding out there is a web-browser based hack that comes out, best solution? Remove the web browser! Nobody complained before, and it's essentally the same situation right? A good PS3 fan that likes the features of their console should be a little miffed at this, maybe not a lot because they don't personally use it, but the fact remains they are removing functionality. And not just PSN functionality, this will cripple your system, you can do NOTHING with your system (from what I read at least).

Oh, and yes the "Just get a computer n00b!" argument can't work both ways for you, you can't argue for a computer being better in this case and not better for a browser without coming off as hypocritical at least a little.

But, then again, I have a slim to this doesn't pertain to me personally. But just because you have preference to some huge corporation doesn't mean that they won't screw you if they can. Your zealous love of a hunk of plastic offers you no protection from corporate greed or pragmatism.

That whole argument doesn't work because of one small detail: Competition. And also the fact that Sony only makes money from consumers by continuing to sell them products. Sony is not a used car dealership. It's not a company who's goal is to just get someone to buy a PS3 then move on to the next guy. They build relationships with their customers and IF they decided to go down this slippery slope of removing functions and features that consumers really do care about then they will greatly be hurting their bottom line as customers get angry and leave to the competition. It's not just that "Other OS" was necessary for potential hacks that's why it was deleted but also that it was a function that was not a selling point, it was a feature that was not widely used, and it was a feature that was not necessary for the core purpose of the console as well as being a feature that current systems no longer had anyways. 

while I think Sony want the PS3 to be an all inclusive Multi-media machine, install other OS was indeed one of the Point's that When the PS3 was designed that before say for example the PS2 had a kit that allowed you to add Linux, but it was $200.00 for that kit when it was  first released

there even has been a dedicated playstation 2 linux website for 7 year's

http://playstation2-linux.com/

when the slim ps2 came out you could no longer install Linux on your Playstation 2 on the slim's but you could on the Phat ps2's

Sony like I stated has beeen a very strong supporter of Linux, it was just a shame Hacker's decided Linux was not good enough for their HomeBrew.