No. I was wondering about it being an april fools joke, which I also wrote in the first message I posted about this on Silicon Investor.
Seems it actually worked. :-)
But then, it still does make sense. Nobody really cares if it uses Linux, because noone owns Linux, so nobody can make money on "Linux" itself. But what's interesting is, that Playstation 2 is already able to connect to the internet, replaces some PC functionality and is not Windows based. Linux will never be an alternative to Windows in exactly the ways Windows is used, but there are Linux and non-Linux products out there that can reduce Windows' market share, like Sony Playstation 2, Palm Computers, Thin clients, TV set-top boxes etc.
The only thing that makes Linux interesting, is that it makes it much cheaper to develop non-Microsoft devices and systems, and that it provides reference implementation of cross-platform software. |
