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| eti:
It seems the rather hypersensitive, antagonistic "staff" :-DD at raspberry pi forums, are, in fact, a set of hired 12 year olds, as they seem unable to face ANY civil discourse or mature discussion, and have VERY thin skin! If we are to take Liz Upton as a prime example, she demonstrates episodes of PUBLICLY belittling people on the official blog (I saw it a month ago, can't find it now/.) A thoroughly immature bunch, with no ability to face criticism. I made a point that with SO MANY raspberry pi 400's falling apart and having other faults, that they should man up and take responsibility for their hardware faults, as a COMPANY, as it does their public image no good to defer people to vendors. The response? BANNED. Reason? "Concern trolling" :palm: :-DD :-DD - that’s their pet phrase, as it happens - any reference to their moderation failings, on Google, finds this phrase mentioned again and again. I see it has also been a long known problem for pi forums, as is discussed here, at length: https://www.element14.com/community/thread/20081 |
| AntiProtonBoy:
meh |
| eti:
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on August 31, 2021, 02:40:42 am ---meh --- End quote --- Profound 😁 |
| Nominal Animal:
Bringing up licensing issues and any issues with GPL compliance will also get you banned real quick. They definitely do not behave like an ordinary or real "foundation"; they behave exactly like the PR department for Broadcom. (The GPL license is a particularly sore point of Broadcom; they have very hard time understanding and complying with it. It is therefore no surprise that the Foundation is keen on obfuscating/eliminating any connection to Libre projects like Linux and Debian, and insist on renaming and rebranding the most visible projects they use in their products –– like Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS.) To be precise, I don't care much, because I do firmly believe everyone is free to behave exactly as they want within the agreed rules of law. What I dislike, is when people insist the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a foundation and should be treated as one, regardless of their behaviour with respect to the developers of the software projects they use in their commercial product. I emphatically disagree: because they behave like PR asshats, I call them PR asshats. (To verify my point, just look at the technical personnel at the Foundation. The permanent employees never participate in the open source projects their own product is based on. They use throwaway personnel who get rotated out within a year or so to do that. It is completely ass-backwards, unless you accept that they consider open source projects poisonous, like Broadcom does, at a fundamental chief officer level. This is a pattern that in my observation fits best the behaviour of the Foundation.) |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on August 31, 2021, 03:27:22 am ---Bringing up licensing issues and any issues with GPL compliance will also get you banned real quick. They definitely do not behave like an ordinary or real "foundation"; they behave exactly like the PR department for Broadcom. To be precise, I don't care much, because I do firmly believe everyone is free to behave exactly as they want within the agreed rules of law. What I dislike, is when people insist the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a foundation and should be treated as one, regardless of their behaviour with respect to the developers of the software projects they use in their commercial product. I emphatically disagree: because they behave like PR asshats, I call them PR asshats. --- End quote --- I've been convinced for a while, and by the weird and hyper defensive/angry behaviour of their "staff", that it's entirely possible that this whole raspberry pi charade is a front for something to do with Broadcom ... the whole "let's teach kids to code" is a steaming pile and they know it - the might of the BBC achieved that in collaboration with Acorn, and it was all down to a companion TV series AND THE CPU WAS OPEN TO ALL!! They ain't EVER going to recreate the "bedroom coder" scene, they don't have it in them, they're utter amateurs and have proved it countless times. I see it AT BEST as them being paid off by Broadcom to shift SoC and/or use the public as silicon beta testers for similar SoC families deployed en masse, elsewhere, or worse... who knows. The whole mega arrogance of their "staff" and their hair trigger to shoot people down, smells awfully of sometime going on that they're never gonna admit to. I dislike the "foundation" as they're perpetually full of dung. |
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