Game Over For Sony and Open Source?

Glyn Moody writes "Sony has never been much of a friend to hackers, and its infamous rootkit showed what it thought of users. But by omitting the option to install GNU/Linux on its new PS3, it has removed the final reason for the open source world to care about Sony. Unless, of course, you find Google's new distribution alliance with Sony to pre-install Chrome on its PCs exciting in some way."

Comments

Like it really matters anyway...

[frankjr]

They are not friends of the free software world, but enemies. If they actually cared about Linux they would not be continually keeping us out of the Blu-ray world completely by their insane DRM schemes. The only reason Sony ever cared about putting user-programmable (and somewhat to highly crippled, I might add) parts on their consoles is to get tax benefits in Europe for selling a 'computer' and not a 'gaming device,' of which the European countries did not find to be a convincing line of argument. As for me, I won't be supporting a company whose policies help keep Linux crippled and out of the mainstream.

Dear slashdot

[BitZtream]

Please change your tagline to:

News for Linux fanboys, stuff that doesn't fucking matter.

Seriously, would you get over posting every single story involving Linux as if its Earth shattering and going to change the way everyone thinks/works/lives in the next 24 fucking hours?

Heres a hint: If Linux on the PS3 was a big deal, they wouldn't have stopped it. They stopped it because all 4 people who give a fuck aren't enough to justify paying people to deal with it. You kooks have no sense of reality or cost of doing business.

Re:Do we really need the commentary?

[BitZtream]

Really? All because you can't run Linux on it? Thats got to be the dumbest fucking thing I've heard anyone say yet.

I'm not going to buy a product because it no longer supports this retarded way to run an OS that a jerk off to, even though I have no earthly idea why I would want to run the OS on the device anyway except maybe to contribute to some folding@home stats so my tiny epenis is a few microns larger.

If you're going to pay that much for hardware now, and your whole justification for it revolves around how at some point in the future, when its practically useless, you could run some other app on it ... Do you realize how retarded you are being?