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"So the RPi foundation deliver the first mass-market hackable board,..."

I notice this type of negative comment about inexpensive, "hackable" hardware freqently on HN. As if the fact that a piece of hardware is inexpensive and "hackable" is insignificant. Perhaps to these commenters, it is. But to others it may be signifcant.

A pocket-sized computer with networking that boots _either_ a GNU/Linux project, a BSD project or Plan 9, not to mention a few other open source OS, from an SD card. For me, this is the major advance and appeal of the RPi.

Far from perfect but still a major advance from the previous status quo, IMHO. Thank you RPi.

In a sense RPi is a market maker. Now they have to find ways to compete in the market they made.