Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi?

From	Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com>
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Subject	Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi?
Date	2012-03-16 13:57 -0700
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On Friday, March 16, 2012 5:03:44 PM UTC-3, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Sure, my question is just, if this thing is so great, what (if any) is
> the obstacle to doing a more open one?  Is it that there's no comparable
> alternative to the Broadcom SOC?

It is a very reasonable question, just like asking what is so special about the Arduino and why don't people do better versions of it? There actually are similar efforts, like http://rhombus-tech.net/

But at any given moment, there is room for at most one project or product to capture the public's imagination. The OLPC was it for educational laptops back in 2005-2007, the Arduino for microcontroller kits for the past few years, the iPad (though several companies had shown essentially equivalent products at CES a couple of weeks before the 2010 announcement) and so on.

Right now, the Raspberry Pi has taken "the world's cheapest computer" spot. It is a pity that the iTV failed to do this in the 1990s when it would have been even more impressive. Note how much of an impact the Commodore VIC-20 and the Sinclair ZX-81 had when they help this title.

One detail is that even the Broadcom SOC wouldn't be an option except for the special deal that Raspberry Pi was able to get as due to a founder being an employee. Some random developer wouldn't have been able to pull it off. Nor would he have been able to get the time of day from Marvell and perhaps not from Texas Instruments either. He would have better luck with NXP and Freescale, but their chips are a bit more expensive.

-- Jecel

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can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-03-07 19:54 -0800
  Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-08 11:11 -0800
    Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-08 21:58 -0800
      Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? jc <john.comeau@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 23:45 -0800
        Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-09 07:36 -0800
  Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? marko <marko@marko.marko.marko> - 2012-03-09 14:43 +1100
    Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-09 03:09 -0600
      Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 02:10 -0800
        Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-09 05:34 -0600
          Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-03-09 08:44 -0800
            Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-09 11:19 -0600
              Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-09 18:27 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> - 2012-03-09 21:49 -0600
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-09 21:09 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-09 21:11 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> - 2012-03-10 01:21 -0600
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-03-10 09:37 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-10 08:31 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2012-03-11 12:29 +1100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-03-10 10:06 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-10 11:41 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 14:17 -0800
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-03-14 00:15 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-10 02:35 -0600
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-03-14 00:13 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-03-15 08:06 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-03-15 20:52 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-03-15 21:37 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-03-16 09:35 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 02:27 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-16 02:46 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 03:17 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-16 06:38 -0500
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 04:55 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2012-03-16 23:12 +1100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-03-16 14:43 +0100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 07:31 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-16 13:03 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-03-16 13:57 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-16 15:30 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-03-18 12:31 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 14:17 -0700
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-03-17 05:06 -0500
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Chris Baird <abuse@brushtail.apana.org.au> - 2012-03-18 17:23 +1100
                Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 17:06 -0700
    Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 15:26 -0700
  Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 13:28 -0800
    Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-14 10:26 +0000
  Re: can greenarrays produce something like rasberry pi? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 17:09 -0700

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