Subj : Raspberry Pi in commercial products
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Dec 10 2023 12:18 am

Over the years, I've become more and more of a believer in what you can do with open-source stuff.  Something I was wondering about recently was, I wonder why Raspberry Pi boards (and similar, I suppose) aren't being adoped & used more for commercial products.

For anything requiring a computer, I feel like often, companies decide on a desktop or laptop computer running Windows (which requires buying a license) or perhaps a Mac system, and perhaps developing a software program to run on that computer if needed.  I feel like many times, a Raspberry Pi with a case/enclosure, with Linux on it, would be perfectly suitable and would be much cheaper than buying a standard laptop/desktop with a commercial OS.  I know this wouldn't be true for all cases, but for many cases, I think it could save significant money.  And if software is needed, there are good software development tools for creating software for Linux.

Nightfox
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