Reasons Behind Sony’s Removal Of otherOS Feature

It seems that Sony has filled an Amendment Complain to fix the deficiencies found in the initial statement of the “Other OS removal” case.
In that Amended Complain, Sony filled information that should come as a shock to most clients.
Sony is now stating that the OtherOS was NOT removed due to security issues nor to protect intellectual property as stated before. It seems that the real reason behind the removal of the feature was in fact production costs.
It looks like Sony was investing too much money to keep both features working and thus they decided to cut out on the OtherOS costs.
As groklaw shows:

159. SCEA suggested initially that the removal of the “Other OS” function from the “fat” models in April 2010 was for security and intellectual property reasons.
160. On its website, SCEA wrote: Why did you delete the “Other OS” feature?
A. To protect the intellectual property of the content offered on the PS3 system as well as to provide a more secure system for those users who are enjoying games and other entertainment content on the PS3 system, we have decided to delete the feature to address security vulnerabilities of the system.
161. This statement is a fabrication. SCEA gave these reasons as a pretext so that it could attempt to argue that the Warranty, SSLA, and/or TOS allowed for the removal of the “Other OS” feature. In reality, SCEI and SCEA removed this feature because it was expensive to maintain (as they previously admitted when the feature was removed from the “slim” models – but which they conveniently removed from SCEA’s website); they were losing money on every PS3 unit sold (due to poor decisions in the planning and design of the Cell chip as noted above and given the PS3’s extra features); SCEA needed to promote and sell games to make their money back on the loss-leading PS3 consoles (and there was no profit in users utilizing the computer functions of the PS3); and IBM wanted to sell its expensive servers utilizing the Cell processor (users could cluster PS3s for the same purposes much less expensively).

There’s also some other rumors that it could’ve been IBM forcing the feature removal since building a cluster of PS3 was a lot cheaper than investing in IBM Blades servers.
But these are only rumors…
Focusing back on the facts and trying to make a timeline:
- Removal of OtherOS due to security reasons and intellectual property reasons;
- Sony hits geohot for opening up the system;
- Sony starts sueing people who focused all their work to get Linux back (graf_chokolo);
- Sony states that there were no security reasons and they just “stole” and advertised feature from their clients in order to make more profit;
It’s starting to look like Sony just did one huge mistake that will be used in the other ongoing lawsuits.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see how this turns out…