Yes they did, and you know wjy? Siony did not make any profit on the sale of tyhe PS3 HW, but it was fine becouse thay made the money back and way more on sales in the PS Sore (games, subscriptions etc), but when people bought PS3s to build Linux clusters on the cheap ( quite a few universities apparently did) Sony got left with the loss leader and no other source of revenue, and Wallstreet hates that. So somthing had to give and guess what that was, yea the other os option. OFC you could mabe jailbreak but that window closed rather quicly