PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend

[thranx]

Snesboy said:

tensen1212 said:

Personally I can see geohot winning this, throughout this whole "geohot hacking teh ps3" thing, geohot has been kicking sony's ass the entire time. But that is what I fear the most because if he wins everyone is gonna think its ok to hack the ps3 to the point where hackers are going to infest every online game on the ps3 and you can't do anything about it since its "the cool legal thing" to do.

 

To think that this all started because of sony removing the OtherOS feature, something that the vast majority of the ps3 users didn't even use. Seriously who buys a console to run an OS on it? you can download linux from 1000's of websites on your computer, why do you need it on the PS3?

Just to say you can. Like putting Linux on GameCube.

Actually most did it for "teh powerz of da cell" using a ps3 is the easiest/cheapest way to get access to the cell processor. I believe that is why the air force used it for its super computer and why others want to use it. The cell is a beast of a processor and works in a unique way from what I have been told. Alos alltho they let you install other os it was gimped and not given access to all hardware on the ps3, that is the reason it was opriginally hacked, to get access to the gpu and other spu. I could be wrong. But even though it had other OS it was still gimped, and stll would of bveen opened up more for proper home brew. Can't really make your own games without using the rsx.