Originally posted by varikonniemi
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1. Open sourcing the drivers is beyond the RPi team's power.
2. RPi is intended for schools with kids in them, or in other words, not colleges/universities. Neither the kids nor the teachers would know where to start.
3. Suppose it was intended for colleges, only PhD students would likely be pushed to study something so complex, and they'd likely be studying something more generic like graphics for MIPS.
4. Does it seriously matter if the drivers are open source? Yes, they may be missing some features, but who's going to add them? Besides, most features features the Pi is missing are things that it wasn't intended for. It wouldn't surprise me if you're one of the people who bought it for XBMC reasons.
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