Geohot did not hack the PS3 for piracy, stop spreading FUD please.  Other OS in standard form is still restricted access, the ability to have full access to all the SPE's and the GPU would open up some interesting possibilities from a emulation/mediaplayer point of view.  Not everything is about piracy in the hacking world, although there is a possibility that it would open a door for the pirates to launch their attacks on the system.

Whether this would have made piracy possible or not is irrelevant though it still doesn't change the fact Sony just dumped over millions of consumers rights and you people are still claiming thats a good thing.  How about you stop telling everyone else that they shouldn't be concerned about protecting their rights and just let these threads die.

Its nausicating, how little people know about the PS3 technically. All usable SPEs were already fully opened up since launch. To improve production yield, they disabled one(with efuses), and they reserved one for the OS (THIS WILL NOT CHANGE REGARDLESS IF YOU HACK THE PS3 OR NOT). Through a bug in FW 2.4 or something, people had 70% of the GPU access, and nothing was substainatally made. Emualators for pre-psx (SNES, Genesis..etc) were already runnable.

I don't know what more 'interesting possibilities' you want aside from bootloaders and ability to play 'back ups'.

Geohot did not hack the PS3 for piracy, stop spreading FUD please.  Other OS in standard form is still restricted access, the ability to have full access to all the SPE's and the GPU would open up some interesting possibilities from a emulation/mediaplayer point of view.  Not everything is about piracy in the hacking world, although there is a possibility that it would open a door for the pirates to launch their attacks on the system.

Whether this would have made piracy possible or not is irrelevant though it still doesn't change the fact Sony just dumped over millions of consumers rights and you people are still claiming thats a good thing.  How about you stop telling everyone else that they shouldn't be concerned about protecting their rights and just let these threads die.

Well alot of people that want full access to the GPU is for to run 3D stuff not just 2D stuff, as in PS1 emus, N64 emus hell even adding back in PS2 emulation (Another think sony took away)..

So saying everyone wanted it just for bootloaders etc is very one sided on your behalf..

And as for the people that said why would sony want to remove other OS from fats, maybe to stop people from running emus on it and playing games like Final Fight, Street Fighter 2 etc for free on emus instead of buying them from PSN...

Its nausicating, how little people know about the PS3 technically. All usable SPEs were already fully opened up since launch. To improve production yield, they disabled one(with efuses), and they reserved one for the OS (THIS WILL NOT CHANGE REGARDLESS IF YOU HACK THE PS3 OR NOT). Through a bug in FW 2.4 or something, people had 70% of the GPU access, and nothing was substainatally made. Emualators for pre-psx (SNES, Genesis..etc) were already runnable.

I don't know what more 'interesting possibilities' you want aside from bootloaders and ability to play 'back ups'.

As for the otherOs.. Sony stopped supporting it many moons ago, the otherOS was hanging on the thread of "PS3 hasn't been hacked yet". Mr. GeoHot decided to cut the thread, hence otheros died.