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I thought the raspberry pi was meant to be an educational diy system? Prioritizing businesses over hobbyists seems to go against that.

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Lots of small businesses sprang up that used it - perhaps some of them were even started by hobbyists. If they didn't get their supply it would have cause a loss of jobs and hardship.

The Pi Foundation decided to help those people keep their jobs during COVID etc which seems to be the clear moral choice.

They surely could have pivoted to an alternative, potentially creating more jobs in the progress. Most commercial raspberry pi projects should be microcontrollers anyway, and certainly not be running on the sdcard.

Obviously they didn't think so - whereas hobbyists can do so too and have no risks to worry about.

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