Sony to answer Geohot's hack by removing other OS support ?

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GodOfWar_3ever on 19 February 2010

Owen Stampflee Linux Product Manager for Fixstars Corporation made the following post in the yellowdog-boards(YellowDog Linux forums).

"Everyone,

I've caught a rumor from a reputable source that the next firmware update for old PS3s will remove the OtherOS feature...

I'm not sure if it's true or not but it's in the best interest of the YDL community to spread the word.

Cheers,
Owen"

It can be speculated that this is sony's answer to geohots exploit which utilizes the other os feature.

http://n4g.com/gaming/News-478833.aspx

Lock if already posted...

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Euphoria14 on 19 February 2010

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

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Thats lame... I have some friends that actually use their PS3 to run linux and if i ever got a PS3 i was going to do the same :( Sad day

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GodOfWar_3ever on 19 February 2010

Euphoria14 said:

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

Piracy prevention...Geohot ruined everybody's life by trying to make pirate lives better...

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Tuganuno on 19 February 2010

I WANTZ MAH MONEYS BAK. there I said what everyone's thinking.
...well actually not really, never cared about this feauture, but some people will be pissed off, specially because a fat ps3 used to cost between 400-600€.

But should we be mad at Sony or at Geohot? You could have made a poll on this thread =P

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Lightning_24 on 19 February 2010

Euphoria14 said:

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

Don't blame Sony, blame hackers. I wouldn't expect anything less from Sony. I would do the same thing.

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Euphoria14 on 19 February 2010

GodOfWar_3ever said:

Euphoria14 said:

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

Piracy prevention...Geohot ruined everybody's life by trying to make pirate lives better...

I understand they whole Geohot thing, which honestly nothing has arisen from yet, but why does that make it alright for Sony to take away something that has been accesible to me for 3+ years?

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Euphoria14 on 19 February 2010

Lightning_24 said:

Euphoria14 said:

I was going to post this earlier but it seems that the thread no longer exists on the Yellow Dog Linux forums.

If this were indeed true though, I would be upset with Sony disabling something they promised me when they sold me my 60GB PS3.

Don't blame Sony, blame hackers. I wouldn't expect anything less from Sony. I would do the same thing.

Well if they are that afraid of this hack being the real deal, which it may not be since it hasn't brought about anything yet, I won't be updating my PS3 anytime soon.

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dsister44 on 19 February 2010

I already decided that I am not going back on PSN. I'm not going to hack my Ps3 or anything, but that doesn't give them a right to take away features I paid for!

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Euphoria14 on 19 February 2010

dsister44 said:

I already decided that I am not going back on PSN. I'm not going to hack my Ps3 or anything, but that doesn't give them a right to take away features I paid for!

This man gets it!

Although I will be a bit different and say:

"Show me the homebrew!"

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