OtherOS vs Sony Class Action Update

Submitted by Tranced_1; December 06, 2011

Since March 2011, first amended complaint, there has not been much news regarding the class action lawsuit brough against Sony for the removal of OtherOS. Today news came to me regarding an updated transcript bringing further information about the case.

Reading over at Groklaw most of the back and forth arguments revolve around the "express warranty" and that OtherOS was not advertised on the box. Sony's attempt to wiggle their way out of this with all sorts of legal technicalities will only bring further anger by their disgruntled consumers. Many of which swear to never buy a Sony product again.

Source: Groklaw

Tags: OtherOS, sony class action lawsuit, sony vs otheros

Yes your right on the initial reason why the PS3 was hacked, but now even if they restore official OtherOS from Sony, hackers won't stop. Unless of course they give us the exact same functionality that OtherOS++ has. OtherOS++ is ++ for a reason. It's not the horribly gimped piece of shit that Sony's OtherOS is. It has entire access to the whole system. So unless Sony make an official OtherOS++ that allows full hardware access, people will still use hacked PS3's for homebrew and the like. As OtherOS++ is far superior to Sony's version. It's a night and day difference. You get access to all the SPU's (and PPU IIRC), plus the RSX (but requires driver.) Where as Sony's version only allowed basic access to RSX IIRC and one or two SPU's or maybe it was just the PPU. Either way it was horribly, horribly gimped.

# xPreatorianx 2011-12-06 18:33

Yes your right on the initial reason why the PS3 was hacked, but now
even if they restore official OtherOS from Sony, hackers won't stop.
Unless of course they give us the exact same functionality that
OtherOS++ has. OtherOS++ is ++ for a reason. It's not the horribly
gimped piece of shit that Sony's OtherOS is. It has entire access to the
whole system. So unless Sony make an official OtherOS++ that allows
full hardware access, people will still use hacked PS3's for homebrew
and the like. As OtherOS++ is far superior to Sony's version. It's a
night and day difference. You get access to all the SPU's (and PPU
IIRC), plus the RSX (but requires driver.) Where as Sony's version only
allowed basic access to RSX IIRC and one or two SPU's or maybe it was
just the PPU. Either way it was horribly, horribly gimped.

# Acid_Snake 2011-12-07 05:21

that wont happen simply because having linux with full hardware access is like having the system hacked, otherOS was horrible because of the lack of support and and newer distros consuming much more memory, I remember ubuntu 7.10 running smoth back then, and xubuntu went even better, like a pc, not to mention yellow dog, which was the official ps3 linux. otherOS++ might have access to rsx, but that doesnt mean the system is going to improve much, remember the ps3 has 512 MB of ram only, not enough for newer distros

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