Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update
Found on Ars Technica on Thursday, 13 May 2010
The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York picked up 336 PS3 systems in 2009 and built itself a 53 teraFLOP processing cluster.
The Air Force team ordered the hardware, spent days unboxing it and imaging each unit to run Linux, and then... Sony removed the Linux install option a couple months later.
All such projects will last as long as the machines survive or used machines are still available, but new hardware can't be added and refurbished machines can't be used.
Screwing over their customers and the military; Sony sure has some balls.