- The RPi Foundation exists to educate children. There is no mention of "open" on their About page and there are the long running discussions about how open their hardware is and the reliance on proprietary blobs for the GPU [0]
- The 'maker' community interest was originally a surprise to them [1] which still staggers me given that Arduino had long been a thing
- MS has a history of capturing the budgets of educators and attention of young minds. The education computer market in the UK used to be dominated by Acorn and Apple until MS decided they wanted a piece of the pie and decided that computer education in schools should be about learning to use Office [2]
[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/
[1] https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2012/raspberry-pi-2/
[2] https://www.cbronline.com/news/acorn_backs_away_from_uk_educ...