Your talking FAT here arn`t you. The PS3 has moved on and the hardwear like my original FAT is now out of date. The SLIM never supported the other OS feature as I understand so why is anyone surprised that 3 year old technology is now going to be updated to bring it in line with the slim PS3. Eventually the FAT will disappear as the PS3 has become far more popular since the release of the SLIM... And more changes are in the pipeline. SONY won't make the same mistake again as they did with the XBOX and they will keep the 'gaming console' ahead of the pack. The games are what sells, not the disc player ... and a specialist minority group like LINUX are hardly their concern.... And they can change their mode of operation at any time. I support SONY for their gaming console, always will. So If they think its necessary to move the platform on to compete with crappy Microsoft then I am very very pleased. Seriously if you want LINUX go get a tin box....
The PS3 is internet dependant for gaming now and most stuff won`t run without the Playstation Network which is free. This internet updating tool from SONY keeps both FAT and SLIM healthy, for PS3 browser and gaming purposes. That is the focus, sorry. So the computer will get updated unless you simply disconnect it from the telephone line.
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That all sounds great accept that it is mostly made up. "The PS3 has moved on and the hardwear like my original FAT is now out of date." is, once again, purely subjective. As a matter of fact, a month ago Sony stated it was committed to supporting Other OS on the legacy models:
http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2010-February/007202.htmlI support SONY for their gaming console, always will.
This sentiment is actually quite scary! You go right ahead and worship your corporate overlord. Sony is a faceless, soulless, transnational corporation with no love for customers, simply profit. You are probably correct though, that Linux users who also use the Playstation Network are probably a miniscule minority. Whether Sony's behavior is legal or not, I'm sure they have nothing to fear from us.
As a member of the super-majority I'm sure it's easy to tell the minority to suck it up but one day you'll be the minority; yelling from your little soap box while the majority tells you to suck it up and get back to suckling the teet of Sony.