A lot of those alternatives have adopted the pi's form-factor as a loose standard, so there's a reasonable chance this is going to work on many of those alterna

A lot of those alternatives have adopted the pi's form-factor as a loose standard, so there's a reasonable chance this is going to work on many of those alternatives. We're almost starting to reach a point where Pi is being decoupled from Raspberry, in much the same way PC was decoupled from IBM. We don't need to lose the Pi ecosystem just because the RPF won't sell us theirs.