Sony says sorry for other os take down

[jneul]

_mevildan said:
I see a lot of people saying they support the decision and it was useless feature anyway and they don't use it blah blah.


This is wonderful thinking if you don't use it. But have some empathy for those who liked the feature.

My brother and I used it. We are software developers and having linux on there was an awesome way to have fun programming for the cell. Yeah you get emulators, but this was the real deal, programming on the metal. And seeing as though we brought our PS3 knowing about this we were pretty excited. We have been working on a software project for years that we have been keen to get working 100% on the cell as well. Well those dreams are gone now.

But wait, thank the heavens, there is a "choice" there, keep OS and never get any other games or play online again. How fair and thoughtful. Having invested in about 35 games so far and lot's of trophies on my profile I guess I have to "choose" to install the update and kiss linux goodbye.

Oh and I have a "real" PC too, doesn't mean that the other OS feature wasn't useful to me for other purposes. We are pretty pissed off, but I guess (as Sony is hoping) we will get over it. I couldn't even look at my PS3 recently quite honestly.

To be honest, yes I feel sorry for you both, but like I said, just look at the bigger picture there are 33m + ps3 users out there, most of us do not use linux, I used to use it on my fat ps3, but got over it when I chose to get a ps3 slim instead, unfortunately you will have to choose between online games or programming, as normal single player games are still avaiilable no matter what you choose.