I agree to an extent. However I understand from Sonys perspective their console was not made as a cheap alternative for Cell programmers to use but as a piece of consumer electronics which they sell at a loss in order to make money off software and in my opinion this allows greater control over their hardware opposed to a PC. I initially bought my launch PS3 instead of an Xbox simply because it had the OtherOS functionality and I enjoy programming and the Linux OS. Essentially I don't feel abused by Sony by the update, they'd already taken the functionality out of the new PS3's and if I you want to continue using the feature you can simply not update to the new feature and you can continue using the old firmware along with a proxy to access the PSN if you still use it.
My question about YDL's continued support is if a relatively easy softmod is released at some point if they will exploit the new found hardware access? On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Mike Birlew <[email protected]> wrote: > I whole heartedly agree with you. I don't see how anyone on this thread > could disagree, yld is why were here. If they get away with this, I fear as > others do, that this will allow a wave of abuse by companies downgrading > your product after they have advertised it as something else. All in the > name of Intellectual Property and unconscionable EUA's. I'm seriously > expecting to see a "power of attorney" clause in one of these someday. > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mike Erwin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Normally I wish people well... but I hope Sony has to pay for their >> bait & switch. The PS3 has been fantastic for games and movies, but >> its main appeal (for geeks like me) was as a Cell programming >> workstation. My army of PowerMacs is no longer supported, but at least >> Apple didn't remotely disable them! Or turn them into iTunes Music >> Store kiosks. That's essentially what Sony has done. >> >> Mike Erwin >> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Kai Staats <[email protected]> wrote: >> > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/playstation-linux/ >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] >> Unsuscribe info: >> http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' >> > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' >
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