Partner-Debugger is currently the cheapest official option to, you know, debug software (it also has cci/3ds usb loading, hostIO - cia usb installing and the ability for 3ds software to read and write files and ram with a PC, and classic controller support).
An expensive "MIDI" card adds, uh, midi input, a 2 GB flashcard, and hostIO to Panda and Snake but I don't know if it quailfies!
$ony wanted their money back

Even at Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine U.S. Dollars, the PS3 was sold at a loss for so many years, that removing Linux was also to piss off people who bought it as a supercomputer. The fact that Geohot broke the sandbox was a very convenient excuse for a small part of the reason...