Codingstyle Interviews PS2 Linux Developers

Linux Freak writes "May 22 marks the official release of Sony's PS2 Linux kit in North America and Europe! To give you something to do while waiting for your package to arrive in the mail, Codingstyle has conducted an interview with several people in the PS2 development community, including two people from Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Ltd. (SCEE), as well as official kit and PS2DEV hobbyists."

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It's Wednesday

[rossz]

So today, Sony is not evil. Tomorrow they will be evil again.

slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

apparently the site was running off a ps2 linux box

Coding style's idea of style:

[jemele]

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Tee hee hee. Robust, eh?

Interesting interview...

[b0r0din]

"How much do you program on the PS2 kit?"

Interviewee #1: Umm, not much.
Interviewee #2: Umm, not much. My dog ate my development notes.
Interviewee #3: I'd program more, but umm, not much. See I met this real non-plastic girl and we [censored- see alt.furries.erotica]
Interviewee #4: I program a lot except on the PS2. Can I talk about how uninteresting my job at [insert acronym] is?
Interviewee #5: I was just explaining how the RISC chip architecture worked when you interrupted me. Oh yes, what was the question? Oh yeah...umm, not much.
Interviewee #6: I'm too busy trying to get to the next level of GTA3 to actually code on it. Is that what that beta thingy I received in the mail was for?
Interviewee #7: (aptly named Sporkhead): Cool! My PS2 says 'Hello, World'!

Sony notification email

[lucaschan.com]

Heh, for those of you that didn't sign up to recieve email notification when the Linux PS2 kit was released, you're definitely missing out.

Sony mis-configured the mailing list so that when people replied their messages went to everyone else that signed up for notification.

There is currently some very dodgy porn being sent out to everyone via email, including some poor guy who's trying to buy the Linux kit for his son.

Definitely made my morning. Thanks Sony. =)

Re:FreeBSD WindRiver & Linux Sony = SellOut

[Anonymous Coward]

Sony is looking to make a fast buck and will screw you silly in the end. Look what they are doing with copy protection. Wind River bought FreeBSD and promised to keep on FreeBSD developers and promote FreeBSD. FreeBSD and their developers got screwed. A lot of the core coders have left FreeBSD. FreeBSD is dying like the other BSDs because of their license that let companys rape and rob them of their code without giving back to the community. The only hope for BSD if it forks or GPL's the code. There is work going on at Debian to try to bring BSD to Linux. Sony if you want to be part of Open Source Community stop you copy protection madness and Open Source GPL the code. Until Sony stops being the puppet of the RIAA nobody should use their code. Just remember what Wind River did to FreeBSD. Sony cannot buy out Linux GNU but they can pollute the code base with non-GPL software. They could be planning on a sneak legal attack to challenge the GPL and Open Source Software. Beware when enemys come calling bearing gifts in hand they usually have a dagger in the other hand.

Re:Interesting

[wheany]

And the poster's name is "RTFA Man", as in "Read The Fucking Article Man"

HTH HAND