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Cheap, open or interesting. If your product is at least two of those things, you should be prepared for the Open Source community to hack it.



Well put. And I agree. I draw similarities between RPi and OtherOS on the PS3. Sony permitted Linux on their consoles and in exchange the hardware was locked. PS3 was not hacked until they removed the OtherOS feature and was the last console of that generation to be hacked. RPi is not Sony and would (probably, hopefully) not start limiting user OS choice, but the moment that happens, it will be completely and thoroughly hacked as there would be an incentive to do so.




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