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		ppf on Feb 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Compu... The Raspberry Pi is a terrible example of "open computing". As well as the usual Broadcom close-source binary blob drivers, you also have a proprietary operating system running underneath Linux (ThreadX, now owned by Microsoft).

bzzzt on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

By strictly adhering to that definition of 'acceptable open computing' you have to disregard about 99,99% of the technology available in the world.

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