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by schappim 992 days ago
> It blows my mind how shitty Raspberry PI foundation are to their community:

You are conflating Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd and Raspberry Pi Foundation.

The foundation is hardware agnostic, and even create content for 3rd party micros such as the micro:bit [1].

> prioritized industry over community, and made it almost impossible for hobbyists to get any meaningful hardware for so long

The company went through an existential crisis during the silicon shortage / pandemic. They had to make very hard decisions. The "prioritized industry" was mostly constrained to older hardware w/ larger process node sizes (Raspberry Pi 3), and compute module.

[1] https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started...