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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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  • I find it refreshing that a major company would mention a non-executive in a press release.  Usually the names of engineers and other people who actually get the work done are kept secret so they aren't recruited by competitors and head-hunters.  Usually press releases only identify top executives and give the impression that all work is done magically by elves.

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  • I find it refreshing that a major company would mention a non-executive in a press release.  Usually the names of engineers and other people who actually get the work done are kept secret so they aren't recruited by competitors and head-hunters.  Usually press releases only identify top executives and give the impression that all work is done magically by elves.

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  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    I find it refreshing that a major company would mention a non-executive in a press release.  Usually the names of engineers and other people who actually get the work done are kept secret so they aren't recruited by competitors and head-hunters.  Usually press releases only identify top executives and give the impression that all work is done magically by elves.

     

    Well in this case, the product is just a BCM2835 and LAN9512 on a board with a bit of necessary glue around them, so the Guild of Magic Design Elves won't be particularly impressed.  However, the executives at said major company are no doubt mightily impressed, because simple and complex electronic designs are probably all equally obscure to them, whereas number of units sold they can relate to perfectly.

     

    In other words, they're probably celebrating Eben Upton MBA, one of their own kind, and I guess he's working his way quite nicely towards the board at Broadcom.  Magic elves never earn more than pocket change, and new kitchens are expensive. image