Sony Encourages Linux On Their Phones

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34 points·Garbage··13 comments

They encouraged Linux on the PS3 once too, remember?

My first thought as well: it's a trap.

I'm sorry but at this point we should all know what kind of company Sony really is. They don't deserve positive PR from trying to sucker geeks again...

edit; Not sure how I'm being voted down. This is nothing more than PR. We have already seen their true colours.

Sony could offer a license where they agree never to remove those features in the future from that line of devices.

A license subject to unilateral change on their part, of course...

Sony is a big company and Sony Ericsson is only 50% Sony. Why the Xperia phone is "PlayStation certified" and not the "PSP phone".

Not is it wrong, but also very unfair to call Sony Ericsson just Sony. More so because of the recent rumors that Sony is bailing out.

You "may" void the warranty? Sony-Ericsson makes the devices and specifies the warranty terms but doesn't know if you would void it or not?

Whether you void the warranty or not may depend on the laws concerning warranties in your country/state.

I guess we should read that as "we would like to void your warranty" then :)

I guess it may depend on what you're doing with the software, the phones might have a self-destruct button or something...

(I guess some companies want to do that with lost phones)

I assume they mean, if you brick the phone, the warranty is void. If you reflash your phone but then the hardware breaks, the warranty is still valid.

fool me once ... fool me twice ...

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