I always forget about the blog. It takes a while to get around to the point, but it does get there. However, the statementAny suggestions on how we get it across that the Foundation is the educational side, and the Ltd is the bit that makes everything would be most welcome!!! It is frustrating that this is not yet well known, given it has been that way for many years.
There is an informative Blog post from a spokesperson for the 'other' Raspberry Pi that tries to explain...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/what-w ... oundation/
is not totally accurate since we do have 2008 to 2012 in which from what I understand, existed only the Foundation.So Raspberry Pi has pretty much always been a tale of two organisations: the Foundation, which is a charity, and Raspberry Pi Ltd, which is a commercial company.
Basically the blog is saying their ultimate goals are similar and they work together. An IPO means investor money will help fund innovation for products. The Foundation will have shares and board positions. However, the Foundation is hardware/software agnostic in its goals for the education of youth.
It all sounds great as long as some of the Foundation maintains input on the board.
The main reason, however, Raspberry Pi is even a term, is some forward thinking people saw a need that the free market did not provide, so a charity was formed. The reason for success is the very affordable first edition Raspberry Pi SBC.
Would this notion of a cheap SBC that got a computer into the hands of many be developed by a for-profit company? It wasn't in the first place, so we may never know.
Of course, now that it is a thing, the Raspberry Pi SBC is popular enough to turn a profit (I think?) and be a private company (since 2012).
So, how did it go? Are more students interested in Computer Science at Cambridge and at large? I hope so. Of course the gratis nature of the default OS really helped get GNU/Linux into to the hands of Raspberry Pi users.
That's the gist of ot from my point of view. An, oh, if you have such a cool SBC thst runs GNU/Linux, consider why. Open source allows for the modification and tinkering of the code, which is part of education. Really, all code in the Raspberry Pi distro should be open source or declare any BLOBs outright, as well as having clear links to the source code. This to me is the heart of learning on a computer, as well as learning your preferred coding language. It's like the right to repair movement. The power and knowledge to fix something should be shared with the consumer.
I did get the first Raspberry Pi.
Remember the hype? I do!
Good work all these years good people.
cheers!
Statistics: Posted by breaker — Wed Sep 04, 2024 10:42 pm