Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
by megous on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:42PM
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They don't have to be profit oriented, though. They just have to balance the money flow.
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Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
by tjoff on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:50PM
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And what is protecting your investment to ensure it is not a massive loss, if not balance their money flow?
Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
by megous on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:45PM
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Anyway, engineering things to manufacture them and sell for profit is not a charity. It's indistinguishable from normal business.
Also Raspberry Pi SBCs and accessories are made by Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd, not by the foundation. If you look up FCC testing reports, it's all submitted by Rpi Trading. That's not charity even legally.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/09/21/raspberry-pi-trading-lt...
Charity, right? You wouldn't know from their own website, because they seem to not publicize their business structure very much. My guess that it's similar to mozilla foundation/co split. Foundation does nothing about the products, it's just a public face. And corportaion does all the product work, and is very for profit.