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[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 years ago

While it's good that they have been ramping up production, their attitude towards consumers during the shortage is something that some users won't forget, as well as them seemingly ignoring that they are an education charity.

At least the Pi CEO acknowledges this in the CES interview with Jeff Geerling, where he mentions that the company has been "burnt" from a customer perspective. While they do contribute a lot to mobile linux development (indirectly), I think most people here would probably prefer the company just focus on their original mission of getting an affordable, credit card sized computer into users' hands... not scalpers and hardware developers' warehouses.

Also, I personally don't really want to support Broadcom seeing the horrible decisions they've been making recently - why would they buy VMWare, then proceed to drop ALL of their partners, and put a ton of their staff out of work??

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

VMware, because they are bringing sales in house to make more money. Cutting out the middle man.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They're leaving anyone under F100 to twist in the wind, as the sysadmin forums are attesting. If you were going to continue to service SMB or larger, you'd have an inhouse division ready to go before you shut down the channel. That is precisely the opposite of what's happened.

this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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