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Path: ...!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:18:30 +0000 Subject: Re: rPI Goes Public Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <WtqcncEXG8y0nPT7nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@earthlink.com> <v4bisq$1hptf$1@dont-email.me> <wwvr0d0g5la.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <v4fgrm$2cbhf$1@dont-email.me> <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> <666e2a36@news.ausics.net> <wwvr0cw9itq.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> From: "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> Organization: zippy gate Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:18:29 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <wwvr0cw9itq.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <uTidnclGKrILpOP7nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-u6IrMHrUG7q0RYUCNkFoCuEL525R0jPY/goWZzMgs5XV4z5u6xss/kcetwvDZ3W7Ti18Coy7hSOGOX9!8pPAlUy8NqWhjv7yOiFl8vOG/mIckG1Zwrj5ntR8+aJLK4R9tQJo7y7rPgBQr95UPkk1D7ekWku9!XhnJkpkAFwnAJVMnZE0d X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2819 On 6/17/24 2:36 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes: >> 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. > > Not impossible, but remember that the early history of Linux and the GNU > project is of volunteers building software for computers that were very > much manufactured for profit. Yea, but the PSYCHOLOGY intrudes here. The BOX is considered just the "underlying engine". One main idea behind Linux was a free/open *OS*, not "free computers". But, yea, SOME will still be put off by rPI going public, at least shorter term. SOME of the software for the PIs is "customized" to best suit the boards, and thus major profiteering from the boards IS a bit of a downer. My big gripe though isn't the PI per-se, but the Pi5 reliance on the not/never-ready-for-prime-time Deb WORM. Four of the five main things I do with PIs would NOT work with WORM. Went to BeeLink boxes and Manjaro instead. Deb, PLEASE, FIRE the Canonical REJECTS you hired !!!