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Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components!

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On 24.03.2012 12:38, j.m.granville@gmail.com wrote:

> It does seem strange that there could be some magical, but unknown,
> number above which it suddenly changed from a development board.!!!

Well, those lawyers' world _is_ strange, from a technical point-of-view.

That said, there most likely is no particular, magical number.  There's 
a gray zone between two ends of a spectrum of legal positions.  One end 
of that spectrum consists of objects meant to be used by engineers who 
are supposed to know what they're doing.  The other end of the spectrum 
is made up of bona-fide commodity items like, say, cellphones.

As long as you're clearly on either end of that spectrum, you know 
without significant doubt which kinds of rules you're going to have to 
live by --- basically none for experimental, pro-only hardware, or the 
whole CE certification shebang for commodity items.  There are some 
intermediate points with well-defined rules, too, e.g. stuff only 
licensed radio amateurs are allowed to use, or all higher classes of 
laser equipment.

But all that knowledge doesn't help you if you find yourself in that 
gray zone, away from all fixed points.  The type of distribution channel 
the Pi is aiming at, particularly that whole "one Pi per child in 
school" idea, makes it hard to defend the position that this is not a 
commodity item.  It's hard to claim development board status if you 
require no proof of qualification whatsoever from people you sell that 
thing to.

The sheer number of sales has some bearings on that distinction, too. 
If you're selling it by the million, it's not a development board.

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Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-03-24 03:48 +1100
  Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-23 10:15 -0700
    Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) - 2012-03-23 17:38 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-23 11:40 -0700
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de> - 2012-03-23 20:05 +0100
        Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! "TTman" <pcw1.cad@ntlworld.com> - 2012-03-23 20:27 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Anders.Montonen@kapsi.spam.stop.fi.invalid - 2012-03-23 21:24 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-03-24 08:53 +1100
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de> - 2012-03-23 22:54 +0100
        Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! John Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 16:01 -0700
        Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! j.m.granville@gmail.com - 2012-03-24 04:38 -0700
          Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-03-24 13:49 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2012-03-24 07:37 +0000
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-03-24 12:12 -0700
        Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-24 12:46 -0700
          Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! josephkk <joseph_barrett@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-03-27 12:34 -0700
            Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-27 13:28 -0700
    Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2012-03-24 21:35 +1100
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Bob <bobcousins42@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-24 06:40 -0700
        Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2012-03-25 01:31 +1100
          Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-03-24 12:15 -0700
      Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components! Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-03-25 04:16 +1100

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