| dsister said: Nevermind. I forgot I can't do what I wanted to do with number 4 on this computer :(. Anyways, timeline time :D Jan 22: Geohot successfully hacks the PS3. March 2: Sony promises to continue supporting Linux March 29: Sony relocates the developer in charge of Linux into another department April 1: Sony removes Linux. Why if they removed linux because of Geohot did they wait so long? Everyone knows that Sony was spending a small fortune on supporting a feature that not many used. Blaming piracy was just the easiest way of removing it... (@ the whiners who say the dates are different then the last time I posted that's because I actually went out to find the sources and got the correct dates) |
So a company would risk there credability removing a feature because it cost them money to run. How did it cost them money. They already removed the feature in the slim reducing the price of that consol and only a handful of people ran linux on there PS3s which wouldn't have cost Sony anything either.
From what I remember, they took there time removing OtherOs because towards the end of January geohot had access to the entire system memory and he could run PS2 emulated software, write his own sofware and pirate PS3 games on the PS3 consol. It takes time to see the amount of damage and how good this exploit actually was. Not to mention the sit downs with Sonys legal team on what could happen if they removed Linux support and the amount of development time needed to remove such a feature without damaging anything else on the PS3.
Why would sony give a fuck about some dude running homebrew on the PS3 if it didn't allow piracy. Think about it. They only cared once it was found out that he could actually pirate PS3 games.
