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Re: PS3 Home and Linux

  • Subject: Re: PS3 Home and Linux
  • From: Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:46:27 +0100
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"VinegarTasters@xxxxxxxxx" <VinegarTasters@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> One of the major trends happening in the world today is the ability
> for products that impact as many
> people as possible in a positive manner.  One of these products is the
> games that perks the interest of, and
> exercises the mind.  There are of course many different ways that good
> can come from products.  Besides
> the above, some companies like google, ebay, etc, create products that
> allow the consumers a cut into
> making a living.  In these two examples, the ability to offer
> advertisement on webpages, and selling stuff on
> the internet.  Because the human population is growing at an
> exponential rate, there will probably come a

Who told you that?

> time when the amount of companies that exists to provide products to
> people and hire people (to give them
> an income) will reach a period of static growth and even decline in
> growth because there are only so
> many companies that can compete making the same widgets.  So as more
> and more things get automated,
> it is inevitable that there will be more and more people and less and
> less companies.  This will lead to
> major changes that needs to implemented to keep many people around the
> world sustainable (living).

Are you related to Roy (the brackets) ?

> So it is with this trend of google and ebay that game platforms need
> to be opened up to allow programmers and
> people who want to sell stuff to be able to do so on these platforms.

Why? They can do it "for free" on the PC if they want.

> Unfortunately ebay is not totally free to use.  If Sony were to allow
> Home an easy

ebay? What are you talking about? You sound like the offspring of Roy
and Mark with your brain having gone through a blender.

> way for people to offer products to sell (and maybe use paypal or
> similar ways to make a profit), and
> if the PS3 were opened up to allow people to create games (like how
> the PC allowed programmers and
> in the end game companies to form), then it would offer something more
> of a value then just a game console.

People can create games. You have to pay for the development
kit/subscription though AFAIK.

You can also program "Linux" games. You wont make any money though.

>
> Since the recent trend for people to purchase stuff off of the console

It's no "trend" other than "it happens". What figures do you have? How
does it compare to Steam from Valve?

> network, it would be inevitable that the best would be for people to
> offer their software (homebrew, games, apps, whatever even other
> things) off of PS3 Home.  But because the console network is currently

Whats wrong with the normal web?

> proprietary and not free, it has to be opened up, if not in Home,
> in the Linux area of the PS3 (swapped out for a better 3D OS)  This
> is, of course, the best feasible way in the
> case that people are not smart enough to use the linux partition to
> create another market place (given that the 3d rsx is a roadblock)
>
> If you want to learn more about the playstation 3, visit:
> http://www.edepot.com/playstation3.html

Did you know your line length is screwed?

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