Sony sued over Linux removal, Case documents surface

[joeorc]

jesus kung fu magic said:

ssj12 said:

phxprovost said:

Baalzamon said:
This is a key component of the PS3?!?!?!?!?!? GET A COMPUTER!!!!!!!

Sony put a feature into a consumer product then removed it once purchased?!?!?!?!?!?

Would be like if apple sold you an iphone then decided to send out an update one day that removes text messaging from all phones.  Should they be aloud to do it cause its their product, with the main purpose of the product being to make phone calls?  O rite i forgot its sony we are talking about here, automatically all is forgiven around these parts.

look at Microsoft, the removed the 360's blade OS for their new OS. Some people still prefer the older blades. So does this mean that people who prefer the blades can sue Microsoft for removing a feature they liked for a new one? The answer no. Your iPhone example is bs because Apple's TOS contract is the bloody worst. They reserve the right to go into an individual user's phone and remove any apps and features they want. So yes they can remove text messaging if they wanted to at anytime and there is nothing anyone could do about it including AT&T.

Thats something completely different.....the NXE can do everything the blades can just in a different form......had MS made it so that they cut out options from the blades then you may have had an arguement.

 Microsoft can, that is the point. you or I as consumer's cannot lay claim to ownership of any part of the software on the machine we just get the use of it. That level of Control is set up that way even before you or I as consumer's get the device. the Software is what run's the Hardware and control of that is very vital to software companies, this is nothing New. Microsoft has a backdoor into every copy of window's , does that mean they would use it, most likely no but it's there.

Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo can change that Software stack if need be for what ever reason they choose. It's Not something they do willy nilly removing function's, if there is a valid reason many time's the companies give full disclosure of why and what they are taking away.

In this case Sony did this in response to A hacker who released his exploit into the wild on the internet.

they did it for security reason's and most likely getting past that very reasonable explination to the judge in court for him to rule in the consumer's favor over "consumer protection law's being broken" is going to be hard

since Sony did not out right remove the function:

you as the consumer can still keep it.

the problem is if future software is made that does require FW higher than 3.15 you can not claim you cannot update your machine to be able to be security compliant and software compliant, because you can still update the machine. if there was no way to do it, say you were forced to update now but you could never update the machine in the future than that would indeed be a problem. but since you still can the judge will most likely view it as such judicial prudence of sony with security of the PS3 to protect consumer's machine's from further hack's as well as they could.