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Game Over For Sony and Open Source?

Posted by Soulskill on from the forsaken-beards dept.

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."

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  1. Ain't no Friend of Miiiiiiine! by GPLDAN · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    U not my girl
    U not my wife
    Got a couple tips from Mike
    I'm moonwalkin outcha life
    I close my eyes, you outta site
    Now she wanna call me conceited
    Cause I'm a Smooth Criminal
    I told her to Beat It
    When a lil' love was all I needed
    U talkin'? I call it how I see it
    And now I mean it
    I'm out for good
    Like a lot of u into movin out the hood
    But if I told u take me back u would
    Too late me and P like Pac & Suge
    Had you into cars with a metro
    With a couple superstar from the ghetto
    Now you feelin so soft and u let go
    Of da T.E.M.P.A Mental


    What u gonna do
    U aint no friend of mine
    Look what u put me through
    I'm the new Gangsta


    What u gonna do
    U ain't no friend of mine
    I can never fall in love
    The new Gangsta


    What u gonna do
    U ain't no friend of mine
    (Whatchu Gooooonnnnnna Do)
    Look what u put me through

  2. Here's an anecdote by JoeSixpack00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A few years back, a friend of mine needed me to format his Vaio desktop. He lost his restore disk, and he wasn't overly fond of XP anyways because of the speed difference. Everything installed smoothly, but I couldn't get a few key things working (i.e. sound). Why? Because not only did Sony not support Windows 2000, they refused to release any specs whatsoever on it's hardware. The hardware was mostly from major manufacturers, but it came directly from them to Sony, with no specs available whatsoever, thus no third party drivers (ones that worked anyways). This may not sound like that big of a deal in 2009, but at the time, no other major vendor had this problem - which wouldn't even have been a problem at all had they simply "unblocked" Windows 2000 support. After a few days of searching high and low, I just gave up and bought a copy of Windows XP off of eBay.

    So basically, the most proprietary hardware vendor out decides against allowing you to run an OS that they never officially supported anyways? Seriously, is this that big of a shock?