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Re:Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi by agumonkey on Saturday January 14, 2017 @02:01PM (#13399927)
Yes but still, at that time these SoC alone were above the rpi board price point. If you wanted to sell something aronud 30 you had to do vendor tricks with odd parts.
Re:Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi by joezydeco on Saturday January 14, 2017 @04:23PM (#13400643)
Yes. Embedded engineers do this every day.

BTW the Broadcom part is heavily subsidized.

Re:Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi by nitrogen on Saturday January 14, 2017 @07:25PM (#13401509)
Subsidized by whom? Who is losing money on the RPi?