Not most but many.<p>It was a subsidised platform with great specs, the cheapest linux box available and ran on a tv, never mind free console &amp; media player. A lot of my student contempories bought it solely for Linux as it was the cheapest way to a Linux platform.<p>I cite the Condor cluster using 1760 PS3s, once the 33rd fastest super-computer in the world. There are many other published Playstation clusters (PS2 also). The cell processor was highly desirable and very powerful for the price.<p>I will always thank Sony as &#x27;otherOS&#x27; allowed me to evangelise Linux &amp; indeed computing to many families who never considered owning a computer. To kids passively consuming games I could show the power to create them with Linux and turn a passion for gaming into a passion for coding - I was not alone in this.<p>&#x27;OtherOS&#x27; use was both significant, socially important, and moreover printed on the box when bought - this seems contractual &amp; IMHO Hotz was in the right to re-enable it.<p>Sony have world leading engineers and tech, that perfection should deliberately be downgraded for non-engineering reasons breaks my heart.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PlayStation_3_cluster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PlayStation_3_cluster</a><p>Sadly I feel I can no longer own or evangelise Sony devices until Hotz can too - it was quite unjust behaviour.<p>Hotz did not lose in court, the courts agreed with Hotz, but his exclusion from Sony ownership was coerced against his will, uncivilly, nonetheless.