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credit for engineering the RPi

Former Member

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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  • If Abishur (a master of the blue pencil if ever there was one) isn't careful he'll have to delete his own post and then ban himself. image

     

    Press releases, meh (as young internet savvy types might say). Perhaps Broadcom will now step up to the plate and admit responsibility for adoption of Synopsis USB tech and promise a fix Or not.

     

    One wonders if the Foundation are finding themselves to be just passengers in this whole affair.

  • in reply to Former Member

    I think Abishur's comment has to be parsed very carefully.

    He mentions Broadcom 4 times, but the 4th time he says

    "Broadcom corporation".  Why would he go to the trouble

    to add the "corporation"?  And why just on the 4th reference.

    My guess is that in his mind he was distinguishing the

    Broadcom corporation's involvement from the Broadcom

    Foundation's involvement.  But if he had clarified that, it would

    have defeated the point of his post in taking full credit for the RPF.

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  • in reply to Former Member

    I think Abishur's comment has to be parsed very carefully.

    He mentions Broadcom 4 times, but the 4th time he says

    "Broadcom corporation".  Why would he go to the trouble

    to add the "corporation"?  And why just on the 4th reference.

    My guess is that in his mind he was distinguishing the

    Broadcom corporation's involvement from the Broadcom

    Foundation's involvement.  But if he had clarified that, it would

    have defeated the point of his post in taking full credit for the RPF.

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