The tax complaints don’t really hold water to me. A competitor could spin up a nonprofit if they wanted or pivot to nonprofit status. But they don’t, because th

The tax complaints don’t really hold water to me. A competitor could spin up a nonprofit if they wanted or pivot to nonprofit status. But they don’t, because the opportunity costs and limitations of being a nonprofit are nontrivial. There are successful competitors, both for and non profit - BBC Micro, Orange Pi, BeagleBone, etc. And re: OSS, I don’t remember anybody complaining that Lenovo (for example) “outsources” their Linux thinkpad OS. The raspberry pi foundation is using open source (and some vendor closed source) software in full compliance with its licenses. The post you linked complains that the code quality of the raspberry pi modifications is “bad” and can’t be integrated into mainline Linux, but that doesn’t make it not open source. “Open source” has no obligation to be high code quality.