In all fairness, a forum thread would collect a bunch of anecdata but is not an official way to request a sale. If the Raspberri Pi foundation doesn't want to

In all fairness, a forum thread would collect a bunch of anecdata but is not an official way to request a sale. If the Raspberri Pi foundation doesn't want to sell you their product, there's no way you can force them to sell you one. That there are no blog posts probably just means that some exec from Broadcom told Eben not to post anything.