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Re: Raspberry Pi update from RS Components!

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On Saturday, 24 March 2012 10:35:37 UTC, Chris Baird  wrote:
> Don McKenzie wrote:
> > Much has been happening behind the scenes since you received our last
> > update, not least the start of compliance testing on the Raspberry
> > Pi.
> 
> Gee, gee, gee... Is Dontronics is spreading FUD about the Raspberry Pi
> again?

Not really. To be fair, Don reposted the same email from RS that I and many 
others got, and without additional comment. The Raspberry Pi org is generating
 FUD all by itself! Fitting wrong components, now suddenly realising they need 
to do compliance testing... as one of the posters on their forums said "it's a 
shambles".

Of course, we forgive their amateur mistakes, because they are a well meaning 
charity. However, it does not bode well for their real and more challenging 
task, of providing support and training to teachers and students.

R.Pi themselves do not place great importance on producing their own hardware, 
it's a means to and end (they are quite happy for it to be cloned). I guess 
they thought it would be an easy place to start.

Given their limited resources, it would have made a lot more sense to create a 
spec for a platform then invite manufacturers to build devices to the spec.

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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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