Except that’s not what happened in the pi and that’s not what is happening in the cars.
You’re paying for that hardware whether or not you also pay for the keys. You own that hardware. You would be offended if you bought a house and the previous owner said “oh and if you want to use the rooms, you’ll need to buy room keys”.
You should be offended at BMW. And Broadcom.
You get that, right?
R pi paid Broadcom for the chips. Then you paid r pi for the pi. Broadcom didn’t give anyone a discount there.
And you’re ignoring decades of scummy lawyering and lobbying to make the proprietary codec bullshit legal.
I think the idea is that the cost of producing standardized hardware is lower than the cost of producing a custom version without that codec just for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was not interested in that codec, so they didn’t buy a license. Separately, as a special agreement, they then allowed the few interested users to get a personal license directly from the IP owner. Sounds like a great solution to me.
Not sure if the same reasoning applies to BMW, though.
Except that’s not what happened in the pi and that’s not what is happening in the cars.
You’re paying for that hardware whether or not you also pay for the keys. You own that hardware. You would be offended if you bought a house and the previous owner said “oh and if you want to use the rooms, you’ll need to buy room keys”.
You should be offended at BMW. And Broadcom.
You get that, right?
R pi paid Broadcom for the chips. Then you paid r pi for the pi. Broadcom didn’t give anyone a discount there.
And you’re ignoring decades of scummy lawyering and lobbying to make the proprietary codec bullshit legal.
I think the idea is that the cost of producing standardized hardware is lower than the cost of producing a custom version without that codec just for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was not interested in that codec, so they didn’t buy a license. Separately, as a special agreement, they then allowed the few interested users to get a personal license directly from the IP owner. Sounds like a great solution to me.
Not sure if the same reasoning applies to BMW, though.