Will Sony sticks its penis in the hornet's nest?

[Kasz216]

dsister said:

DonFerrari said:

And the best is that I'm still waiting to know how removing other/os cot cost from Sony, it isn't a mechanism or moving parts, is just the possibility to instal other/os how much did this cost to Sony (as the systems were already sold)?

Obviously OtherOS continued to update itself to be compatible with the new firmwares... oh wait, not it didn't -_-

They had a team working on it to make sure it was compatible. 

And everyone is just quoting what Sony is saying... 

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/295597/news/ps3-other-os-removed-to-cut-costs-not-piracy-lawsuit/

Well that and word was that IBM was rather pissed at Sony after the Airforce decided to use PS3's for clustering. 

Word is, they were afriad a lot of people were going to use those instead of Cell Servers.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110310172538157

Goes into GREAT detail about the benefits of removing other OS and why Sony's reasons were a fabrication.

For the part your talking about....

 

"Sony was quite diligent about testing, and with each new rev of the GameOS (which acts as the hypervisor for Linux) there was a battery of tests. Often the GameOS had to be modified to support things which otherwise broke in Linux, so it is not a one-way street. GameOS affects Linux, and Linux affects GameOS. If a component on the mobo changed, the hypervisor code would change to support the new component, and then the testing starts again. While I am not aware of a time when the GameOS was modified to correct something we discovered to be broken in Linux, I can state that with nearly every third release of updated GameOS versions, something broke in Linux for which we compensated on our end, often with the assistance of Geoff [Levand] (who was great to work with, BTW)."