[wlesieutre]

Sony advertised this as a feature of the PS3 called "OtherOS" and then got sued when they turned around and removed it with a software update.

Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...

There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu...

[_ea1k]

I remember that. It seems like there were some restrictions that held back performance in OtherOS mode, though. It was too bad that they didn't keep it up.

[selectodude]

You couldn't get GPU access. You had full access to the Cell BE though.