[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?

[Noah Evans]

As an aside to cliff's point, if Sony ceased support for the "other
os" feature because of monetary reasons(i.e. linux users don't buy
games, which makes it impossible to recoup the cost of the hardware)
as opposed to technical ones(i.e. it was not worth it to reimplement
"other os" support because of hardware changes), has sony ever
considered charging a premium(1-200 dollars) for a hobbyist enabled
bundle(something like a net yaroze?). I've heard about the new
university oriented dev kit, but i personally would love to have some
slim's for the office. We don't have much space, so the slim would
potentially make our lives much easier.

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Clint Thomas<cthomas at soneticom.com> wrote:
> Hey Geoff,
>
> Was there a paricularly good reason SCE came down with this decision? I mean, how hard is it for them to migrate the feature over from the prior version of the PS3 to the new slim one? Its very disappointing for me to see Sony give up on the OSS community like this. Buying a Cell blade is out of the question for those of us in the starving artist category. Looks like I'll have to turn to Ebay to keep my cluster going :-/
>
>
> CT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbe-oss-dev-bounces+cthomas=soneticom.com at lists.ozlabs.org [mailto:cbe-oss-dev-bounces+cthomas=soneticom.com at lists.ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of François Galea
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:43 AM
> To: Geoff Levand
> Cc: cbe-oss-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?
>
> Hi Geoff,
>
> Geoff Levand a écrit :
>> The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new "Slim" PS3
>> model to focus on delivering games and other entertainment content.
>>
>> Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue the support for
>> previously sold models that have the "Install Other OS" feature and
>> that this feature will not be disabled in future firmware releases.
>
> Thank you for this clarification.
>
> I would just like to express my disappointment about this choice from SCE. It is really bad news for the CBE open source community, because the new ps3 customers will not have access to what some oss developers have made, in the idea to let the others profit from their work. I never imaginated SCE would take such an arbitrary decision.
>
> Cell B.E. programming is now officially reserved to a restricted community, which is not good news for the architecture in general. I guess most QSx Cell blade purchasers have made early testings on ps3's.
> I doubt, as this has now become impossible, that selling Cell blades will be as easy as it was. The future will tell us.
>
> François
>
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