Die müßten bei ps.net alle gesperrt werden, für immer, und ewig!!

Nun nimmt der Protest gegen Sonys Vorgehen neue Züge an: In Großbritannien wandte sich ein Nutzer an Amazon, verlangte einen Teil des bezahlten Betrages zurück – und bekam Recht.

Basis der Beschwerde ist die EU-Direktive 1999/44/EC wonach ein Produkt den vom Verkäufer gemachten Angaben und den darauf fußenden Anforderungen des Käufers entsprechen muss. Der besagter Käufer argumentierte gegenüber Amazon UK, dass dies mit der OS-Entfernung nicht mehr gegeben sei. Amazon erkannte die Beschwerde an und erstattete – jenseits von etwaigen Garantieansprüchen – 20 Prozent des Warenwertes.

Abseits der Kuriosität dieses Vorgangs könnten dieser und ähnliche Fälle Auswirkungen auf Sonys weitere Entscheidungen haben. Gesetzt den Fall, dass sich derlei Beschwerden häufen, könnte der Konzern mittelfristig dazu gezwungen sein, die Entfernung rückgängig zu machen.

On January 22, 2010, geohot wrote; Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot.

On February 19, 2010, Owen Stampflee, Linux Product Manager for Fixstars
Corporation, wrote on the Yellow Dog Linux Community Board; "Everyone, I've
caught a rumor from a reputable source that the next firmware update for old
PS3s will remove the OtherOS feature... I'm not sure if it's true or not but
it's in the bset interest of the YDL community to spread the word."

Note: His post was deleted a couple of hours later on.

On February 27, 2010, Geoff Levand answered a mail on the Cbe-oss-dev mailing
list as follows;

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2010-February/007202.html

Goeff knew it already.

So one month after geohot's hack Sony had made the decision to remove the
OtherOS. And I argue that the decision was made long before geohot informed
us about the hack on January 22. Why? Well, I can't prove it directly, yet,
the Slim is just an indication, but making such a decision of removing a
feature, that will essentially downgrade your system, won't be done within
one month. Assuming that the decision was made before January 22, then it
can be assumed that the hack has triggered a button in the head of one of
the officials who might have shout to his employees; "REMOVE, REMOVE
OTHEROS NOW! I ALWAYS TOLD YOU THAT THIS SH!T WILL TURN BACK ON US.
FUCK KEN, FUCK LINUX, FUCK THEM ALL!". Someone brought this information
to Owen Stampflee since Fixtars had a business running on the PS3. That's
just speculation, of course. The time it took till April 1st was used to rip the
OtherOS out of firmware 3.15 and to bring Sony into position and to put a
muzzle on everyone's face.

The essence is the following; Sony never wanted to fix geohot's hack to keep
the OtherOS. It was just a perfect match to wipe it off from the PS3. The
OtherOS was on a one-way street the day the Slim was out. That's it. No?
Prove me wrong.

Sind die verfügbaren Dumps des GameOS und Hypervisors nicht genug?