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by MarkCole 759 days ago
The filing mentions the Foundation multiple times?

> Raspberry Pi is a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity founded in 2008, with the goal of promoting interest in computer science among young people. Raspberry Pi has distributed approximately $50m in dividends to the Foundation since 2013, which has been used to advance its educational mission globally.
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deelowe 759 days ago
I have first hand experience with not being able to get RPis for educational purposes while the employers I worked for were ordering them by the 1000s.

These discussions are missing the larger point which is that it feels the .com side of Rpi is eating away at the original mission of the company.

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chrisjj 759 days ago
> the .com side of Rpi is eating away at the original mission of the company.

Fun fact. E Upton long ago resigned from the board of the original (charitable) Raspberry Pi company and set up the commercial company now known as Raspberry Pi.

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deelowe 759 days ago
Sounds about right and this is exactly the sort of thing I suspected would happen from the start.
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