The story of sony and linux on your ps3

Although it is unknown to many. PS3 has the functionality of installing a Linux distro OS on the hard disk and being able to run it. This was a marketing campaign designed to compete with the Xbox OS which is an adaptation of Windows. So what happened to PS3 wanting to pay to be able to remove this functionality on an old gen console ?

The Console that I try to bring Linux to the Youth

The Generation of PS3 and Xbox360 was the first generation that consoles were evolving to be a PC. The PCeros always had the argument of " I prefer a PC even if it is somewhat more expensive since I can do a thousand things that I could not do with a console, such as studying, working or using it for any other type of entertainment other than playing a video game."

Sony devised a great plan to eliminate once and for all that great argument that had the users of PC and to gain much more public to its console. The great plan that the PS3 has the option to install any Linux OS that is compatible with PS3. With this, apart from dismantling the best argument for buying a PC, I wanted to give another argument to the Consoleros that PC users used: "Dad, Dad will buy a PC, is that my friend has one and it helps him a lot to study since he has access to a lot of information in addition to having a typewriter simulator to write my works ”

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Being a PC also has its consequences

The idea on paper is excellent but it fell under its own weight. What young computer amateur would like to use Linux as the primary OS? (In Spain you can clearly see the laptops that the government gives children with Linux OS end up being pirated Windows OS).

Who wants to have a console can simulate being a PC when the PC already exists? The seventh generation was the first generation that the consoles were PC, but it still had poorly compatible hardware to perform this function. It was not until the current generation of PS4 that PCs and Consoles use similar Hardware.

And if this is not enough, leaving a functionality that gives you Read and Write permissions on your Hard Drive is sweet for Hackers like George Hotz. He managed that the PS3 will run games without the signature of Sony and again make a fool of Sony that "their consoles are irretrievable to the contrary of the PC"

Consequences of PS3 and Linux

After 6 years of lawyers, if Sony wants to remove Linux from their PS3, they will have to follow these steps:

• Pay for a crime of "Deceptive Advertising" since this functionality has been part of their campaign. (At least for users who have already paid for the console.) Also pay $ 55 to about 10 million people to take advantage of the agreement that their console will no longer be able to use said function. And finally, discount $ 9 to new users who buy PS3 for not being able to use the functionality.

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Do you think that all this has been profitable Sony with PS3 when it has for sale its PS4 and PS4 Neo possibly in this 2016?