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A more apt analogy would be "Was old I was getting a pony but got a small plastic model of a mule".

Pi made a huge song and dance about this yesterday, nobody can fault their media savvy, but in the end they didn't really release much.



I'm still happy. It wanders a bit from topic, but I eventually gave away stacks of Broadcom based WRTSL54GS wifi routers because their closed source driver was stuck at linux 2.4 and I needed 2.6 for some attached hardware. That went on for years. Having everything that runs on the host CPU open means things like this can't happen. Much better than a plastic mule.

Even further afield… When my first daughter was 3 or 4 we got her a magic wand for her birthday. A plastic star on the end of a plastic stick. She was thrilled, pointed it at her grandmother and said "I turn you into a bug!". She was crushed when it didn't work. Rather spoiled the whole day for her. She assures us she was going to turn her back.


The bit about your daughter keeps cracking me up. That that would be the first thing she would try... Thanks.


> She assures us she was going to turn her back.

She did. It all happened so quickly you didn't notice!


True, BUT, it doesn't look there was really very much to it anyway, so while I wouldn't be jumping up and down cursing at them over this, I'd hardly call it an impressive achievement either.




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