Message-ID: <666e2a36@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: rPI Goes Public Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 16 Jun 2024 09:56:39 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 34 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 2535 Richard Kettlewell wrote: > Pancho 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 -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#