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FluffyChicken":1vd5edh5 said:
I said nothing about consultants.
Raspberry PI found a market for something to help kids learn to programming, and adults alike. It moved into wider areas. From the onset they where looking to market it.
That's just spin.
The motivation for people at the outset was to encourage the younger generation to get back to past times where there was more innovative software development. That's an altruistic ethos, not a commercial one.
The marketing and commercial interests that have been attracted since, are merely a means to an end, and a necessary evil - the notion was not to serve that master at the outset.
FluffyChicken":1vd5edh5 said:
OpenStuff, the market are the people who want to do it and use it, else it wouldn't be there. Theylut it out there ij tot he market and see how KT goes. It doesn't have to be no ey, then people advertise it for them increasing the market.
I'm sorry but that's simply not understanding how the open source community got going or thrived.
From the early days, it was nothing to do with marketing or increasing the market. It was people being fed-up of proprietary systems, OS and software, who openly collaborated for the good of the community.
Even now that ethic still thrives.
And yes, even now, commercial entities try and make a fast buck on the backs of an open, collaborating community by taking open-source software, trying to add their own competitive advantage - and they still can be held to account and made to publish their source code.
And whether or not it's the same for how this forum started, plenty of internet forums got started purely on the basis of helping others for no commercial gain. Going back some time I was very active in collaborating in some technical forums, and lost my interest in it when several members joined from commercial companies, purely to tout their service - when the forum had got established and built-up on the basis that plenty of innovators who'd pioneered and deployed environments and software solutions on certain platforms, freely collaborated with a community, shared their ideas / solutions and often software, only to have people selling services sweep in and tout their product as the answer to everybody's prayers.
The notion that everything is done, interest is garnered, and anything people seek out is all because of marketing, is all simply overreaching.