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Why was Folding removed from PS3?

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Hi,

I remember I'm 2008 there was a folding app, and I didn't know what it was. It's only now I realise what it was, but why was it removed years ago?

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Probably because it made it work at high loads, causing high heat, damaging the components, making them RMA and whatnot. That, and they hate user freedom.

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My PS3 is just sitting there doing nothing, does anyone know if there is a work around to install it still?

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Sony where shutting down the Life with Playstation service which included folding@home.

Folding@home on the PS3 was very useful. Imagine buying many, many PS3s for cheap and putting them to work.

Or maybe Sony are the modern day devil.

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Probably heat issues and because the PS3 was a gaming system all the Linux functionality posed possible security problems.

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