- cross-posted to:
- raspberry_pi@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- raspberry_pi@programming.dev
“Raspberry Pi Ltd, a leader in low-cost, high-performance computing, announces that it is considering an initial public offering (the “IPO” or the “Offer”) and that it intends to publish today a registration document (the “Registration Document”). The Company is considering applying for admission of its ordinary shares to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”).”
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Why would they do this? The Enshittification of SBC has begun :(
Beaglebone has always been less shittified than Rpi, but didn’t keep up price-wise.
Rpi fell under the spell of consumer attention almost from the beginning, abandoning whatever mission it had to make media center boards.
Besides Broadcom, Rpi is also under the thumb of ARM. I don’t see why else the Pico didn’t use RISC-V cores with actual mul/div and floating point hardware instead of the kludges they bolted onto the cortex m0.
Raspberry pi is basically a marketing exercise for broadcom that got out of hand, so it doesn’t surprise me they’re doing this, unfortunately.
There’s been talk of this for a while. Sadly it means that things like quality, price, leaps in innovation, things remaining useable across different models, will inevitably get worse as they start to pursue profit over everything else.
So, since they’re going to become profit mongering dbags and ruin their product and brand, what are the best alternatives? I’ve never used them but I’ve been aware of them for several years now.
I have some projects that I’m working on that seemed like a Raspberry Pi would work well with but I’m not interested if they’re going public.
TIA!
