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credit for engineering the RPi

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There is an old saying that "victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan".

 

So we see Broadcom appearing to take full credit for engineering the RPi,

saying "Broadcom's mission is to engineer the impossible", with no mention

of the RPF.

http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s701387

 

And we see the RPF mod Abishur saying the opposite:

"As a point of order, this isn't really an issue of what Broadcom has made possible. Broadcom has designed the chip, and some of the RPF are also Broadcom employees separate from being RPF founders, but the Broadcom corporation does not have a hand in the RPF's cookie jar <wink>"

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=19963&start=130

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  • Marketroids are well known for claiming credit where no credit is due though.  I don't think that their press release is any strong indication that the Pi was a Broadcom project all along, and that RPF is an unofficial Broadcom annex.  If anything, the Broadcom logo on the alpha boards was a stronger indication of that.

     

    Curiously, it would seem to be an own goal by Broadcom marketting, as engineers who take pride in their design are probably trying to stay out of the limelight over their problem child.  The price point was certainly a success, but technically it's a media SoC on a board with a poor set of I/O connectors and some USB problems.

     

    Pi didn't become the worldwide phenomenon that it is based on technical merit, but because it's extremely cheap and "good enough" to be used for some very useful applications.

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  • Marketroids are well known for claiming credit where no credit is due though.  I don't think that their press release is any strong indication that the Pi was a Broadcom project all along, and that RPF is an unofficial Broadcom annex.  If anything, the Broadcom logo on the alpha boards was a stronger indication of that.

     

    Curiously, it would seem to be an own goal by Broadcom marketting, as engineers who take pride in their design are probably trying to stay out of the limelight over their problem child.  The price point was certainly a success, but technically it's a media SoC on a board with a poor set of I/O connectors and some USB problems.

     

    Pi didn't become the worldwide phenomenon that it is based on technical merit, but because it's extremely cheap and "good enough" to be used for some very useful applications.

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