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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 31 July 2006 12:00 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Joining the PlayStation 3...
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>>>| Obviously, you can hear that all this is very expensive to make and put
>>>| in the console. How could Nintendo cut the cost? It's very simple. Simply
>>>| Wii will have software based on a industry standard platform that's open
>>>| source. Linux. You read that right. Wii will have Linux as operating
>>>| system with proprietary GUI and applications based on commonly opens
>>>| ource for Linux programs.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/07/software-in-wii.html
>>> ( this source/blog is a Nintendo employee )
>>
>> Unfortunately, they don't seem to have understood how this works,
>> observe:
>>
>> This probably make you all think of homebew and hacking and
>> things like that, but the final system in closed and will allow
>> only signed code etc and will be very secure, even though it's
>> technically compatible with a world of already existing software.
>>
>> Hopefully they'll realise that having an open platform will open up all
>> kinds of possibilities, in which case, we might even get one here.
>> Keeping it closed is not too smart, I think.
>
> I believe that a(t least) reviewer has claimed that the
> Nokia 770 -- that which you happen to own -- is also too
> closed. maybe you can challenge that statement.
I've not read that, but I'd say it's pretty much open. There's even a
third-party kernel with nfs3 support available from the maemo website
for the 2006 build (which you can flash onto the 2005 machines).
> PlayStation
> 3, on the other hand, was said to encourage third-party
> development (and hacking), which can contribute to the
> environment as much as you saw with Palm (behold the wealth
> of freeware and GPL'd Palm software). To name another
> example, the Zaurus is fairly open for all I know... but I
> don't know if they necessary benefit from this openness.
> This can become confusing is you do not have some separation
> between the crowd (prospective customer base) that is
> IT-savvy and/or adventurous and that which fears
> extensibility and space for exploration (e.g. KDE,
> PHP-Nuke).
>
I think the value of having a committed user-base out there is becoming
clear. Aside from anything else, if people can tailor machines to do
what they want, we start to get to the 1990s dream of "mass
customisation".
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