Only glances at PICList admin hat in corner.
Grins at attached "Still clueless" label that somebody recently affixed to =
it
Decides to not don said hat.
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> Now it may be that RS and Farnell are authorized to produce boards.

1. Farnell & RS are not known for entering into complex large scale
conspiracies in order to defraud their customers or for other reasons.

2. Farnell & RS are liable to have enough business sense to not do due
diligence and so risk being caught up in a major product scam.

SO

      http://nz.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-m=
odel-b/dp/2081185?ICID=3Dap-rpi-hwb

and

      http://newzealand.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=3Draspberr=
ypi

Go a very very long way to making your expressed concerns seem like
conspiracy theory and trolling.

ie both Farnell & RS seem to be totally convinced 9with RP featuring
at the top of their NZ home page) and to further your theories you'd
need to address these "facts" more solidly than by just saying
"Now it may be that RS and Farnell are authorized to produce boards"

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Your wonderings about how Broadcom may react to enthusiastic
application of the product seems more valid - but a matter of opinion
and unknowable.
I'd guess that if sales start in the millions range and escalate into
the potential 10's to 100's of millions then Broadcom will be happier
that any undermining is being done with their ICs and not somebody
else's.

Consider the OLPC promise. $100 laptop. Getting there but not there yet.

Consider the RP possibility.
Keyboard & mouse from best current source. New or used.
Monitors of almost any sort from wherever you can get them. New or used.
Overall integration around core as many groups see fit.
Go!



           Russell
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