| r505Matt said: Overall, everyone should be sickened by this move. There is no guarantee that this will stem piracy on PS3, and it just seems like an awful breach of consumer rights. Again, I don't care about the Other OS option whatsoever, but it sickens me that Sony can pull a move like this and SOOO many people here are still 100% on their side. Even if we ignore the legality, it's still sickening. |
First off, I don't see what gives you the right to tell people that they should be sickened by this move. I make my own decisions. I don't need you to tell me how to live my life. Second, as a PS3 consumer I really could care less if it runs Linux or not. If this move will help prevent hackers from stealing my credit card information on PSN, then by all means do it. I'll gladly give up my consumer rights and let Sony take this feature away. Sony isn't doing this for no apparent reason. So I don't know why people should be sickened by it. Look, I understand a small minority of people may be angry because the remove of this feature, but if running Linux is the SOLE reason why they own a PS3, then they're free to get rid of their PS3 and go buy a PC. There are not millions of PS3 owners out there who are going to lose sleep over this. This is no different than when Microsoft removed SMTP and POP3 server support from the IIS in Windows Vista via Windows Update because of possible security risks. Do I have any grounds to sue Microsoft because they removed a functionality that is listed in the user manual and thus violating my consumer rights?
