Sony sued over Linux removal, Case documents surface

[averyblund]

Great to see consumers standing up for themselves. If I bought a PS3 for Linux I would be pissed as all hell. It might be Sony's design, but you bought console and it is yours. Sure you can lose PSN, but that wasn't really part of the deal when you bought it.

I think of it like taking a brand new car in to the dealer for a recall, and having them remove the (factory installed) spare tire when they return it. What is says on the box, in the ad, or on the website is the service you payed for. Removing a major feature and pretty much stealing from customers is pretty weak. Not only is it PSN, but also Blu-ray. It's like buying a PC and getting a forced update that locks you into a specific version of Windows.

Of course Sony isn't the only one to do this, Apple, MS, pretty much every company who keeps you on a constant firmware upgrade treadmill. Just the fact that anybody is pursuing this likely makes it a net loss for Sony, who lost nothing supporting it. The techsites are having a field-day throwing mud on this one, hardly the kind of PR anybody in such a competitive market needs.