A Standard Linux for the Playstation 3

For a long time Sony has been searching for a way to integrate Linux with it's gaming consoles, including a version for the PlayStation 2 that remained confidential. With it's latest baby, the PlayStation 3, planned for November, Sony decided to provide a standard Linux distribution, and also to open it to outside developers.
So it is likely that there will be a outpour of all sorts of applications, games, and software ports from other platforms by amateurs and opensource communities. And if the Mac community is interested, there is nothing to prevent us from officially developing applications to facilitate the connectivity between our machines and the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 could be completely integrated with iLife for example.
This is the first time that a important console manufacturer (Microsoft, Sega, Nintendo, Sony) has allowed outside development (with the risk of hacking that that allows) and not solely the more lucrative in-house development.
It seems very likely that the openness of Sony is to make its game console, which required a lot of research and development, more than a simple game console, so that it can be integrated in all the homes of the world, and not just those of game addicts. And if that allows us to integrate it easier into our already Macified homes,, all the better.