[Wylug-discuss] Raspberry Pi -- Sites Crashed -- Product Sold Out

[Dave Fisher]

On 29 February 2012 11:44, Will Newton <will.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
> The foundation is a non-profit so can't afford to sink large amounts
> of capital into stock, so the first production run was always likely
> to sell out. They also seem to have gotten a rather large amount of
> publicity from the BBC which can't have been completely expected -
> after all at the moment it's just a cheap dev board with a vapourware
> software stack.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm not complaining about the non-profit ... it's the "for-profit"
part of the supply chain that has failed here.

Dave