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Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen, it will let Raspberry Pi's not-for-profit side expand by "at least a factor of 2X." And while it's "an understandable thing" that Raspberry Pi enthusiasts could be concerned, "while I'm involved in running the thing, I don't expect people to see any change in how we do things."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Eben Upton has always been a pile of dog shit. If his mouth is open, he's lying.

Back when the first Pi was released, it only had 256mb of memory. He came by our hackerspace to promote the Pi, and swore up and down to us all that no updates were coming down the pipe, that it was safe to buy a Pi from him right then, and we weren't gonna be missing out on anything.

1 week later, they announced all Pis were going to come with 512mb of ram by default, no price increase.

Fuck him. Fuck his stupid face. Never trust a word this dipshit says.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

So he unloaded all the unsellable 256mb stock to a bunch of nerds? That's just good business sense. Man could be president some day.