I would agree with you but clearly it does mean something to them. The Raspberry Pi is getting a chip that is currently not available to the public As well, a

I would agree with you but clearly it does mean something to them. The Raspberry Pi is getting a chip that is currently not available to the public As well, as described by Liz in their comments on the Quake 3 post, "Eben works for Broadcom (and they’re giving us some great support – we wouldn’t be able to have got the project this far without their generous help)" http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=106#comment-1764 http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=106#comment-1764 Maybe it is only Eben's employment at Broadcom that is helping them get support and the chip sourcing, because otherwise I agree, Broadcom would not care about this.