Petition for Sony to Open PS3 RSX

[xiaNaix]

An online petition has been created asking Sony to open up the PS3's RSX via Linux. You can sign it here...

http://www.petitiononline.com/RSX/petition.html

[Perseid]

That would rule - but it ain't gonna happen. Sony doesn't want the possibility of Joe 6-pack making high-quality free stuff and they certainly don't want Joe 6-pack to buy a PS3 just to play the free stuff.

[Dante_Must_Die]

Wouldn't this open ways for piracy? As in running backup ps3 games from linux.

[JuddMan]

i think with the power of the cell processors on the ps3, audio video playback will be just fine. as well as your basic graphical applications.

if they opened it, then why would developers care to pay sony the licensing fee to make games for the PS3?

[barf]

i think with the power of the cell processors on the ps3, audio video playback will be just fine. as well as your basic graphical applications.

if they opened it, then why would developers care to pay sony the licensing fee to make games for the PS3?

To have the right to charge for what they make I assume.

[JuddMan]

i guess sony does not see it that way. indeed the huge game studios would pay up, but the independent developers who just want to make awesome games and release them as donationware might become successfull. and sony wouldn't get anything for it. no doubt the huge publishers would like to keep it the way it is now, as competition from the little guys won't be much fun for them...

so in short, a petition from the little people will not do much in my opinion. that didn't stop me from signing it anyway.

[GeToChKn]

1, with pc's being open for so long, with the xbox 1, ps2 and even gamecube homebrew, how many awesome homebrew games really came of it? Lets see a list.

Whats homebrew really been? Media players with illegal codecs to watched illegally downloaded simpsons episodes, emulators to play illegally downloaded roms and arcade cabinet games, or run harddrive loading software and programs to, you guessed it, played downloaded games.

2, what online petitions have ever worked to change a companys mind?

[JuddMan]

they will have to listen. he wrote it so carefully.

[Shapyi]

It would be amazing if they opened the RSX chip for us. Eventually someone will find an exploit in the system and it will probably end up like PSP. I do not think it is in the spirit of Linux to lock out hardware to open source developers. If they think that it would become a big deal for developers to use Linux to distribute games, they are over estimating the amount of PS3 owners that understand how to use the "OtherOS" feature.

[barf]

I do not think it is in the spirit of Linux to lock out hardware to open source developers.

On the contrary the spirit of Sony seems to be to cripple useful stuff.