PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi

I wasn't comparing with the 1980s, but with other much more open platforms of recent years. Two I've been particularly involved with were the lart and the balloonboard. More recently things like beaglebone (yeah I know, powerPV GPU lets it down). The Pi's lack of freeness wouldn't matter if they didn't go on and on about the openness, which is pretty ironic given that it comes out of Broadcom. There have been plenty of very misleading statements (all that hullabaloo about their free graphics driver for example). If they didn't say that stuff then it wouldn't make me grumpy.