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 @gsuberland @mossmann Which only exists because the creator of the board worked for the manufacturer of the SoC, who then funded work to develop it and gave them the SoC for free.  @mossmann that said, Pico is a really cool design and it's way better than their more usual direction, so I think that should be rewarded @whitequark @mossmann it is good to see that they are more open with their own silicon. Even the previous one is so much more open than most vendors out there, you don't normally get to see the source for the bootrom and stuff.  @mossmann It would be nice to have a completely "open" microcontroller/processor with no proprietary IP to use that can be sourced by multiple manufacturers, but until then Raspberry Pi seems one of the better options.  |
@mossmann "the only way to be free is to use FOSS and OSHW so you can avoid corporate and government backdoors!!!" they scream, while using a closed source proprietary board based on a commercial SoC whose datasheet is NDA'd, with a DRM'd MIPI interface.