Maybe I’m being charitable, but my impression was that originally they only had access to non-open gpu chips and therefore were forced to have black-box gpu blobs
IIRC it was something like that & even if initially understandable, IIRC it did not really make sense to continue doing that once they were famous enough & had some money to work with (to e.g. pick a more open chip).
That that still have a closed source firmware, which makes it possible for them to pull off the bullshit discussed in the article & this discussion - that proves there was & still is a shady undertone under all that openness facade of the RPi foundation. :P
> once they were famous enough & had some money to work with (to e.g. pick a more open chip).
This is where I tapped out. They could have done so much to open the industry for makers once they had traction but instead they went the other way. Disappointing at best.
solarkraft · · focus · HN ↗
And then they got some capital injections and started caring more about the commercial side, didn’t they?
m4rtink · · focus · HN ↗
Money and greed has been at the first place from the beginning.
joshspankit · · focus · HN ↗
m4rtink · · focus · HN ↗
That that still have a closed source firmware, which makes it possible for them to pull off the bullshit discussed in the article & this discussion - that proves there was & still is a shady undertone under all that openness facade of the RPi foundation. :P
joshspankit · · focus · HN ↗
This is where I tapped out. They could have done so much to open the industry for makers once they had traction but instead they went the other way. Disappointing at best.