Oh, so you can keep your "other OS" option at the expense of doing anything else the PS3 was originally intended to do.
After owning a 60GB model, I bought a Slim knowing full well that I could no longer install a Linux flavor on it, but for them to actively go back and patch it OUT of existing owners' consoles is just a big fucking slap in the face. What a shitty move, Sony. You should never remove options from an installed user base, especially when they paid for those features.
There's got to be some kind of legal action for this. You can't sell a piece of hardware with a full set of capabilities, then strip out major portions of it. This doesn't even affect me and it makes me absolutely livid.
There's got to be some kind of legal action for this. You can't sell a piece of hardware with a full set of capabilities, then strip out major portions of it. This doesn't even affect me and it makes me absolutely livid.
Exactly! I don't use Linux on PS3 either but this can not be done. They might argue that firmware upgrades are optional but, actually, most of the new games come with firmware upgrade requirements. :shakehead
I am sure some group of hackers will come to the rescue soon.
As Sony stated, you don't HAVE to get the firmware update, and can continue to run Linux as you want (researchers running Linux clusters, etc won't use any of the 'normal' PS3 functions, anyway).
I'm willing to be Sony's lawyers have been up and down the EULAs 100 times before they made this announcement, making sure that the language of the agreement covers them for this type of situation.
I'm not saying that I agree with the decision, as I'm all for open systems, but I understand where they're coming from (though the 'Security' angle is a bit of a red-herring, and probably should read "Copyright Protection").
Holy wowsauce, here I thought it would just prevent you from installing it if you hadn't already, not remove functionality altogether. What the hell is this, Sony? And what sorts of "security concerns" are we talking about here?
That is my curiosity as well. What sort of "security concerns" made this decision? Or does Sony actually mean "piracy," but didn't want to say it for fear of upsetting the natives?
Damnit Sony! Why does every division of the company take one step step forward, two steps back? PS3 is a hot piece of hardware, a supercomputer for the home, and yet you keep crippling it. It seems as though every product line is making steps to be more like Apple (which, to me, means more like crap).
There must be some vulnerability that allows for game piracy via the Other OS option that they're heading off at the pass. What a crappy move, though. How long will it be before they remove backwards compatibility from the release units?
The rumor I heard was that someone found a way to bypass the hypervisor and execute arbitrary code (basically what people have been doing on the PSP since forever.) What really sucks for the people running PS3 supercomputing clusters is that they're cut off from platform security updates. They'd better hope the same exploit Sony is trying to avoid can't be used to develop a supercomputing worm.
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After owning a 60GB model, I bought a Slim knowing full well that I could no longer install a Linux flavor on it, but for them to actively go back and patch it OUT of existing owners' consoles is just a big fucking slap in the face. What a shitty move, Sony. You should never remove options from an installed user base, especially when they paid for those features.
There's got to be some kind of legal action for this. You can't sell a piece of hardware with a full set of capabilities, then strip out major portions of it. This doesn't even affect me and it makes me absolutely livid.
Exactly! I don't use Linux on PS3 either but this can not be done. They might argue that firmware upgrades are optional but, actually, most of the new games come with firmware upgrade requirements. :shakehead
I am sure some group of hackers will come to the rescue soon.
I'm willing to be Sony's lawyers have been up and down the EULAs 100 times before they made this announcement, making sure that the language of the agreement covers them for this type of situation.
I'm not saying that I agree with the decision, as I'm all for open systems, but I understand where they're coming from (though the 'Security' angle is a bit of a red-herring, and probably should read "Copyright Protection").
-drasnor
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/
Just to show Sony that they are in fact NOT all that and a bag of potato chips.