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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by vasco on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @11:35AM (#5032324)
It's a milestone. It represents the success of the platform and reaffirms the strong community and large userbase.
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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by fnordfnordfnord on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @01:13PM (#5032506)
It also re-affirms the business model of creating a super-cheap yet capable development platform, and then not attempting to extract max profit from it.
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Re:More Than Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold by koralatov on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @04:14PM (#5033554)
I'm not really sure you could call that a `business model': the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity, so by definition they aren't out to make a profit. I'm not sure the Raspberry Pi would even exist in the first place if a for-profit company was responsible for making it. It certainly wouldn't be so cheap, and as a result, unlikely to be so successful.
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