No offense but companys dont change overnight...
They locked most of hardware for PS2 & Linux.
Added updates to PSP specfically for locking out hacking the PSP.
Has so much potential for wireless network @ home. Just lack of apps
They also filed for this patent http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/12/ne ... re_pr.html
First link i could find, basicly when u buy a new game it gets encoded in console to prevent u loaning / swaping / selling games to someone else. Since it will only run on your console. Only good news is that this wont make it into PS3.
And then u got the whole issue with Sony installing a rootkit via windows autorun cd. That there contractors actually used GPL code & didnt release source code for it & used a very very basic encryption to hid it. Somehow this didnt come up as a bad idea & they released normal cd's in Austrialian.
Now look @ all this & release saying u going to add linux to console & complete freedom is something else.
1) Sony going to release specs to help Linux dev's to code drivers ?
1a) If not they going to keep drivers updated due to linux kernel changing abi at will.
2) They going to be selling at a lost for awhile, atleast consumer wise. Since it prob be cheapest way to get your hands on a nice computer / graphics & blu disc drive. They going to either DRM / or hardware restrict.
3) Last thing they want is someone to start release games for Yellow Dog & PS3 to run on linux & not pay license fees to release a game. Especially if u got same access to hardware.
4) Noway will u get full low level access to blu drive. And allow for easier copying games & hope noone manages to break there signed key(s) for games.
As for not posting in awhile, but been busy coding & RL. And if u believe this is all rubbish & not how our world works. Hand me what your smoking plz
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You make no sense. At all. I'm not sure if that's because of your horrible English or your argument.
This has no relation to the Linux kernel, at all. Nor DRM. Random patents Sony is filing and what they do with their audio CD has little to do with a third party Linux product.
Actually, the later parts had slight relation to the Linux kernel, so I'll answer that, they might as well give low level access to the blu-ray drive (do tell me the difference between low level access and regular access) because the copy protection of the disc is probably only noticable by the PS3's OS. Otherwise Sony would have to restrict access on regular computers too. Oh, look! Sony just lost the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war. They're not that stupid.
As for the releasing games for Yellow Dog Linux thing, I'm going to guess it's way more complicated than that. Both legally and technically.
tl;dr: "Sony is teh evil" isn't really enough of an argument to say how and if they'll restrict what a third party Linux product can do.
This has no relation to the Linux kernel, at all. Nor DRM. Random patents Sony is filing and what they do with their audio CD has little to do with a third party Linux product.
Actually, the later parts had slight relation to the Linux kernel, so I'll answer that, they might as well give low level access to the blu-ray drive (do tell me the difference between low level access and regular access) because the copy protection of the disc is probably only noticable by the PS3's OS. Otherwise Sony would have to restrict access on regular computers too. Oh, look! Sony just lost the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war. They're not that stupid.
As for the releasing games for Yellow Dog Linux thing, I'm going to guess it's way more complicated than that. Both legally and technically.
If you wish to argue, you've failed if you have to resort to "if you don't believe me, you got to be smoking something".And if u believe this is all rubbish & not how our world works. Hand me what your smoking plz
tl;dr: "Sony is teh evil" isn't really enough of an argument to say how and if they'll restrict what a third party Linux product can do.
Linux will probably run in a virtualized enviroment as a guest OS of the PS3 OS/firmware.
This means it won't be able to access all the parts of the hardware, specially the game running code. Thus code injection is, in theory, impossible.
If you can do all the things you need with the remaining computer resources, there isn't a reason why Spring wouldn't run on it; I don't think the engine would need extensive changes to handle the architecture if the base layout (GCC, Boost, Devil, AL, etc) is provided first.
In other words, the problem doesn't lie here.
This means it won't be able to access all the parts of the hardware, specially the game running code. Thus code injection is, in theory, impossible.
If you can do all the things you need with the remaining computer resources, there isn't a reason why Spring wouldn't run on it; I don't think the engine would need extensive changes to handle the architecture if the base layout (GCC, Boost, Devil, AL, etc) is provided first.
In other words, the problem doesn't lie here.