You're right, but for the wrong reasons. As far as I understand it, the Pi foundation doesn't have much in the way of open-source roots. Their aim wasn't to pro

You're right, but for the wrong reasons. As far as I understand it, the Pi foundation doesn't have much in the way of open-source roots. Their aim wasn't to produce an ideologically pure device, but to create a dirt cheap but fully functional computer as an educational aid to teach kids to code. Open source software just happened to be a cost-effective way of achieving that goal. I think they were were so focused on the educational side that they didn't realise how interesting the device would be to hackers and hobbyists. Remember the problems launch where the demand hugely outstripped the initial manufacturing runs.