alt Hacker NewsOr to put it more concretely in this context: Sony used to let you run Linux on PlayStations! There were all kinds of interesting uses for PS3s outside of gaming that they (initially) supported.
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LeFantome • yesterday at 3:14 PM
I do not own any Sony products and I am not a corporate cheerleader.
But “we” have to own that the reason that Sony stopped selling/supporting Linux in their machines is because “we” used it to circumvent copyright on closed-source games. It is the problem with “our” ethics, not theirs that led to Linux getting pulled.
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Actually it was a bit more nuanced.
After Yaroze, Sony thought PS2Linux would bring some indies into PS2, instead it got full of MAME and other emulators, hence why PS3 no longer offered graphics acceleration.