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Re:Raspberry Pi Trading plans £370m+ stock market IPO by KaiserPro on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:47AM (#29402546)
> I see a lot of doubt in this thread, and while some of it seems to come from a confusion of the two entities, the rest seems to acknowledge their separation, but doubt that it will protect the foundation in the long run.

There are two[1] companies registered, the foundation, which is the oldest, and the trading company.

From what I can see the foundation appear to get a significant portion of the profits from the trading company: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

so long as that continues, then everything will be fine.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Trading plans £370m+ stock market IPO by Fnoord on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:59AM (#29402624)
This setup can be used for good or bad. It can be used to for getting subsidies, it can also be used to funnel money from the non-profit to the for-profit, or to put everything which is for-profit on the for-profit, or to market itself non-profit while the main thing is the for-profit. There's examples of each of these, but I don't know whether it would apply here.
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