A formerly amazing charity now abandoning their principles and going for an IPO. What a shame.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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Market Capitalism has poisoned the very core of humanity, civilization, and literally the COMMUNal environment we all rely on from one breath to the next.
Good thing the market capitalists are so fucking confident that the solution is... going harder on market capitalism. We'll just merge, monopolize, and lay off our way into human happiness and equilibrium, won't we?
That's why the owners propagating this system are building luxury bunker compounds in places like New Zealand, because they're planning to clean up their mess and have confidence in a bright future!
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And for what reason exactly? IPOs are either for owners to cash out or for the company to gather investment money. RPi doesn't really need money, they sell an extremely popular product. They literally can't produce enough product to quench the Pi thirst.
this is the heart of the matter.
business majors are taught if youre not growing your failing. if its not quarter over quarter kpi improvements youre failing.
businesses dont get to just be. they are constantly forced into always getting bigger or more profitable apparently no matter what.
any solid little company ends up getting bought and injected into the verticle.... because humans are weak, and almost all of us have a price.
Things looked bad when they hired that cop and doubled down on his defensive BS. Now it’s arduino and esp32s for me
Orange pi and banana pi and other knock offs is good too... Yet, till they follow that path too
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Going public will fuck them up. Every corporate move will be tied to the stock. It will inevitably destroy them.
Which, at this point, I’m here for. Although I do miss the days when they were a force for good. Or at least nerds. Ah well. Sayonara, you insulting bastards.
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I don't expect people to see any change in how we do things.
When companies say this, they'll usually do the exact opposite later down the line.
Enshittification be like
Exactly that's just bullshit to make people think everything is gonna be fine. It's the stock market. People with the most shares demand you make them more money. That's how it works. So everything will be turned upside down at some point.
Stating outright that you don't expect the obvious thing that always happens to happen... bro you're already giving shareholders a reason to say you're an incompetent manager and replace you with someone that will gut the company for stock growth.
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AAAAAAAAA I HATE ENSHITTIFICATION
WHY DO YOU ALWAYS NEED MORE FUCKING MONEY
FUCK
Its been coming for a while tho. They abandoned the affordable market long ago. Buy banana pis or other knockoffs, those have been better than the raspberry versions for a long time anyways...
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You either die the hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
Didn't they start as a non-profit? But I guess, as someone I know used to say, there's one god everybody worships: the money god.
A non-profit in the same way OpenAI is a non-profit.
"Buy me senpai!"
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Oh no, the tipping point for enshitification. First it was selling all the stock to corporate clients, now this.
ahh shit...here we go again
I don't think I've ever been excited about the IPO of a company I'm a customer of. This trend continues.
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My first Pi got me into computing which led to my software career now. Won it from a YouTube giveaway and kept it a secret because I wasn't allowed to have a computer. Put retroPi on it and told my parents it was for gaming. Coded my first game in Python (from a tutorial). I once put it in a crayon box and used that as a portable handheld. Later. Made a janky arcade cabinet. Sad that my kids may need to use a different brand device. I have no love for public companies
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I lost my respect for the raspberry pi foundation when they prioritize businesses over everybody else when there was a shortage.
I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality
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Of all the things I expected to enshittify during 2024 I certainly didn't expect we'd start with the Pi.
It was nice knowing you
CEO Eben Upton [said] "while I'm involved in running the thing, I don't expect people to see any change in how we do things."
Ah, the good old Godfather gambit.
Shareholders: "Do you intend to price gauge your customers?"
CEO: "No!"
Shareholders: "So who's the new CEO?"
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Well… RIP the Pi.
CEO says firm will "keep doing the same stuff" at least "while I'm in charge."
Narrator: he became President for Life
What would be the second best in terms of popularity, community and affordability?
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I think the RPi has done it's job (cheap, relatively open hardware), and kickstarted the market.
Maybe they were struggling with "what do we do next?", and selling up to let the founders do new things is not the most terrible option.
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Pi was just the first. There are so many tiny hobbiest computers out there now. Not gonna sweat it.
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