Ostensibly, yes. But consider that Eben Upton is an ex-Broadcom guy that helped build videocore and that they get everything at cost, and it looks like an incredibly powerful PR move for Broadcom with side benefits.

Well, I like to think the better of people. I don't know Eben, but he comes across (in what he wrote and I've seen him speak) as honest, unassuming and set on the mission (even if he is now running the commercial side).

I'd give some minor portion of my anatomy to be part of something like the Raspberry Pi project and make some sort of difference (even if it might be seen as pandering to geeky tinkerers rather than helping schoolchildren, it's still one of the most fun and rewarding things I can envision as an engineer).

I typically do, too, but the Pi4 compute module and board are all too eerily similar to a product my team demoed to Eben at CES... right down to the MCO for the port layouts, form factor, and the high-density module interconnects.