Post: Reasons Behind Sony’s Removal Of otherOS Feature
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03-12-2011, 05:31 AM
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CLM
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A lot of drama was stirred up back when Sony decided to remove the otherOS option. Well now Sony has filled an Amendment Complain, in order to clear up some earlier information found in the initial statement of the “Other OS removal” case.
Basically Sony explains how otherOS was NOT removed because of security issues, but instead because of production costs. Supposedly, they felt as though they were investing way too much to keep this feature, so they ended up getting rid of it.
Originally posted by another user
159. SCEA suggested initially that the removal of the “Other OS” function from the “fat” models in April 2010 was for security and intellectual property reasons.
160. On its website, SCEA wrote: Why did you delete the “Other OS” feature?
A. To protect the intellectual property of the content offered on the PS3 system as well as to provide a more secure system for those users who are enjoying games and other entertainment content on the PS3 system, we have decided to delete the feature to address security vulnerabilities of the system.
161. This statement is a fabrication. SCEA gave these reasons as a pretext so that it could attempt to argue that the Warranty, SSLA, and/or TOS allowed for the removal of the “Other OS” feature. In reality, SCEI and SCEA removed this feature because it was expensive to maintain (as they previously admitted when the feature was removed from the “slim” models – but which they conveniently removed from SCEA’s website); they were losing money on every PS3 unit sold (due to poor decisions in the planning and design of the Cell chip as noted above and given the PS3’s extra features); SCEA needed to promote and sell games to make their money back on the loss-leading PS3 consoles (and there was no profit in users utilizing the computer functions of the PS3); and IBM wanted to sell its expensive servers utilizing the Cell processor (users could cluster PS3s for the same purposes much less expensively).
160. On its website, SCEA wrote: Why did you delete the “Other OS” feature?
A. To protect the intellectual property of the content offered on the PS3 system as well as to provide a more secure system for those users who are enjoying games and other entertainment content on the PS3 system, we have decided to delete the feature to address security vulnerabilities of the system.
161. This statement is a fabrication. SCEA gave these reasons as a pretext so that it could attempt to argue that the Warranty, SSLA, and/or TOS allowed for the removal of the “Other OS” feature. In reality, SCEI and SCEA removed this feature because it was expensive to maintain (as they previously admitted when the feature was removed from the “slim” models – but which they conveniently removed from SCEA’s website); they were losing money on every PS3 unit sold (due to poor decisions in the planning and design of the Cell chip as noted above and given the PS3’s extra features); SCEA needed to promote and sell games to make their money back on the loss-leading PS3 consoles (and there was no profit in users utilizing the computer functions of the PS3); and IBM wanted to sell its expensive servers utilizing the Cell processor (users could cluster PS3s for the same purposes much less expensively).
A rumor has recently been circulating that IMB forced the removal of otherOS, because creating PS3s, is a lot easier than investing in IBM's Blade servers. Remember, that is only a rumor though.
Now let's look at the timeline of recent Sony affairs.
Originally posted by another user
- Removal of OtherOS due to security reasons and intellectual property reasons;
- Sony hits geohot for opening up the system;
- Sony starts sueing people who focused all their work to get Linux back (graf_chokolo);
- Sony states that there were no security reasons and they just “stole” and advertised feature from their clients in order to make more profit
- Sony hits geohot for opening up the system;
- Sony starts sueing people who focused all their work to get Linux back (graf_chokolo);
- Sony states that there were no security reasons and they just “stole” and advertised feature from their clients in order to make more profit
Could all of this have been avoided if otherOS was never removed? Would a 'custom firmware' ever been made? Who knows. One thing in for sure though, this is the spark that ignited many hackers.
03-20-2011, 08:14 AM
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SkillerCMP
Do a barrel roll!
No matter what any and all systems will end up being connectec to a computer in some way and get hacked or taken apart ..
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