Re: rPI Goes Public

From	Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: rPI Goes Public
Date	2024-06-14 08:46 +0100
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On 14/06/2024 01:21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:21:25 +0100, Pancho wrote:
> 
>> My point was that The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity.
> 
> That’s not the company that has gone public.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Raspberry Pi Ltd (Or whatever it is 
called) are intimately linked. Raspberry Pi Ltd is a subsidiary.

So the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a large share of an asset worth 
100s of millions. Shares that are easily convertible into cash. The 
people who control Raspberry Pi Foundation have control over the shares 
in Raspberry Pi Ltd.

People who control charities have a number of ways to enrich themselves. 
Paying themselves large salaries is one way, employee share ownership 
schemes are another. Both of these methods are influenced by the 
perceived value of the organisation. They will tell you they are growing 
the value of the charity for the good of humanity, but they 
coincidentally get rich in the process.

For the avoidance of doubt, my cynicism is general as opposed to being 
based on any specific personal knowledge of the Raspberry Pi 
organisation, beyond the recent articles in the press. This is similar 
to the way I was suspicious of the Google company motto “Don't be 
evil.”, presenting Google as altruistic rather than self-interested.

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  Re: rPI Goes Public Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-06-12 07:18 +0100
    Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-12 08:26 +0100
  Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-12 07:19 +0000
  Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-12 08:31 +0100
    Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-12 07:51 +0000
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        Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-14 00:21 +0000
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                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:20 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-17 00:35 +0100
        Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-14 09:34 +0100
          Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-15 00:15 +0100

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