> Endless marketing for an obsolete surplus item (your > last phone is likely to be more capable). My phone indeed has more computing power than a Pi, but it

> Endless marketing for an obsolete surplus item (your > last phone is likely to be more capable). My phone indeed has more computing power than a Pi, but it also costs ten times as much. The attraction of a Pi is that it's an inexpensive computer. > - doesn't work without proprietary blobs, ie. you are > NOT allowed to learn how it works. This is a frankly stupid thing to say. Having a small binary blob somewhere deep in the ROM doesn't prevent you from understanding the rest of the system. > - doesn't make use of the hardware w/o additional > license crippleware The Pi includes optional features that depend on proprietary software. They're not required to use the Pi as intended, in its role as an inexpensive computer for students. Would you prefer that the patent-encumbered features simply be left out? > http://whitequark.org/blog/2012/09/25/why-raspberry-pi-is-un... That link is discussing how the Pi is unsuitable for advanced low-level hardware hacking. While that's true, it's also irrelevant, because people who want to lay out their own FPGAs in VHDL are not the target audience. There are already many other products to serve that niche. > http://boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html This link has nothing to do with the Pi. The Pi has optional features that require a license fee due to current patent laws. The Pi foundation is not making money on license fees. > The VideoCore graphics processor on the Raspberry Pi > in particular needs drivers that do not comply with > Fedora's licensing guidelines. Let alone DFSG. They do not need non-free drivers. I have a Pi, and it can get by just fine with entirely free drivers included in Debian. Once again, you're complaining that there are optional features (here, better OpenGL performance) that require proprietary software. > Go with an openwrt friendly router instead (the audio > noise and desktop experience is substandard on the pi > anyway) Are you trolling? How on earth is a router an acceptable replacement for a computer?