Re: rPI Goes Public

Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> writes:

On 14/06/2024 09:44, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Personally I think the people behind the Pi deserve to get rich,
they’ve made a product that’s both practically and socially useful.

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Yes, someone has done a good job, I'm not sure who that is
exactly. However, I don't think charities are appropriate vehicles for
self enrichment. If that was their goal, they should  have formed a
normal company.

I didn’t say that was their goal, I said that they deserved reward. The
only person who seems to think this is some kind of mugging is you.

Nevertheless: They _have_ formed a company, namely Raspberry Pi Holdings
plc. The people losing out, in the hypothetical where someone uses that
company to enrich themselves beyond fair reward for the RPi achievement,
would be the shareholders (presently including me, on a small scale).

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