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Re: rPI Goes Public

Message-ID <666e2a36@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: rPI Goes Public
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
References (4 earlier) <v4g2eq$2hm97$1@dont-email.me> <v4gsge$2phal$1@dont-email.me> <wwvcyojx6af.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <v4ij11$33ig4$2@dont-email.me> <wwvbk42pnxr.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>
Date 2024-06-16 09:56 +1000
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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> writes:
>> On 14/06/2024 09:44, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> Personally I think the people behind the Pi deserve to get rich,
>>> they've made a product that's both practically and socially useful.
>>
>> Yes, someone has done a good job, I'm not sure who that is
>> exactly. However, I don't think charities are appropriate vehicles for
>> self enrichment. If that was their goal, they should  have formed a
>> normal company.
> 
> I didn't say that was their goal, I said that they deserved reward. The
> only person who seems to think this is some kind of mugging is you.

From the side of software development, I can see how their original
charity status might have motivated programmers to contribute to
improving open-source software support for the first Pis more than
for competitors that were always for-profit organisations. Since
people commonly quote good software support as the brand's key
advantage over other SBC manufacturers, it might be a bit insincere
to build a commercial company on top of that. But then it shouldn't
really be a surprise since Linux itself followed a similar path
with the commercial distros.

On that note it's interesting that they're still seemingly
leaving it to others to try and support their hardware in the
mainline Linux kernel (not just their fork of it), and for the RPi
5 it's actually a SUSE programmer who is doing the work on this:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Upstream-Linux-RPi-5
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-RP1-Linux-RFC

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rPI Goes Public "26xh.0717" <26xh.0718@e6t4y.net> - 2024-06-11 22:00 -0400
  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
      Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-12 12:14 +0100
        Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0717" <26xh.0718@e6t4y.net> - 2024-06-14 09:53 -0400
    Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-13 17:39 +0100
      Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-13 20:21 +0100
        Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-14 00:21 +0000
          Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-14 08:46 +0100
            Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-06-14 08:21 +0000
            Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-14 09:44 +0100
              Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-15 00:16 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-15 10:14 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-06-16 09:56 +1000
                Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-17 07:36 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-06-28 00:18 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-28 17:32 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> - 2024-06-28 10:48 -0700
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-28 17:56 +0000
                Only you have the power (Was: rPI Goes Public) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-06-28 18:00 +0000
                Re: Only you have the power (Was: rPI Goes Public) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-29 07:24 +0000
                Re: Only you have the power (Was: rPI Goes Public) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-06-29 12:30 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-06-28 21:04 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:25 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-06-29 12:35 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-29 17:48 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:21 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2024-07-01 07:10 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> - 2024-06-28 13:35 -0700
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-06-29 01:02 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-29 07:11 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-29 22:11 +0200
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-07-02 03:00 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-02 11:47 +0200
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-07-02 02:55 -0400
                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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