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In The Netherlands the first generation RPi was only sold to users with a Chambers of Commerce registration, I figured this was always the typical end user for it. Like schools, universities, prototyping for companies. Was the RPi in the rest of the world targeted towards home users?

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Yes, anyone can buy it.

What? I ordered the original Pi in May 2012 from Farnell/Element14 without a Chamber of Commerce registration (KvK nummer). A couple of my colleagues did too.

Same here. Also bought one in NL back then without issues.

That was only possible with a KvK registration back then. They changed it after a while so that end consumers could buy one directly.

Yes they changed it after a while so people without a CoC/KvK could also purchase them. But initially only companies and institutions could buy them.

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