Is Atmel that much better than Allwinner? Well, I've got a couple Raspberry Pi devices, too. Those are kind of the darling of the small Linux device market, bu

Is Atmel that much better than Allwinner? Well, I've got a couple Raspberry Pi devices, too. Those are kind of the darling of the small Linux device market, but Broadcom has had its run-ins with the FSF as well. http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/43996.html http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/43996.html http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/tomato-arm-gpl-violations.70666/ http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/tomato-arm-gpl-... There's Mediatek in this market segment but I've heard they're worse than Allwinner by quite a bit (both technically and about the GPL, plus being tight-lipped with tech specs for developers unless you're buying tens of thousands of units). Intel, Oracle, VMWare, Aldi, Best Buy, Samsung, Sony, Western Digital (so the 65C816 or 65C02 or... in all those NES and Atari clones at the drug store), AmLogic, and others have been involved in some alleged violations. Apple, AMD, and nVidia have not always been great friends of the GPL. Rockchip and Mediatek are both very closed about their chip specs and may not have any better record with the GPL either. So do I buy Broadcom, Intel, Oracle, AMD, nVidia, Samsung, Apple's A8, Rockchip, Mediatek, or WDC processors? Freescale is now part of NXP, so maybe them? TI's retired OMAP line? And then I can build my own PCBs and put up a Kickstarter to hopefully recover the cost of the prototyping... and then get vilified about something or other. I hope Allwinner is actually getting better about this. They're not making much money on my few units. Until I can get OpenRISC, RISC-V, or something from OpenCores on an SBC at a decent price I'm afraid the options are a bit limited. I guess I could buy IBM Power or Fujitsu SPARC-64 for larger things, but for the most part the desktop, workstation, and server markets are clouded with bad behavior, too.