Apparently the Raspberry Pi camera has a DRM chip in it to stop anyone else from designing or producing third party cameras. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=149426 … WTF‽ I think I'm going to start calling it the Raspberry iPi. Why the hell is this garbage in an *educational* product?
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Yeah that reasoning is utter bullshit. I don't care if they can't document the interface because of NDAs or whatever, but locking it down *on purpose* is just pure greed. What's next, authentication for HATs?
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This is one thing I don't get amidst all this outrage. They're securing revenue... Which they use to produce troves of educational material, and support/sponsor existing FOSS projects? Is that evil? Also bearing in mind the core product is super low margin...
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Using DRM to lock down products is evil, yes. "Securing revenue" for other good causes does not excuse said evil. It's antithetical to user freedom to stop them from e.g. designing a Camera V2 compatible module in a different form factor or with a different lens.
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