Not what I'd call a better deal at all, and that's not even getting into the fact that the Pi team are making all the documentation they can available, while Genesi doesn't really have any interest in hobbyist hackers at all.
Genesi operates an online platform for technology enthusiasts and hobby as well as professional developers at
http://www.powerdeveloper.orgThe company has given away hundreds of development systems to hobby developers over the years and continues to support operating system distributions such as Crux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSuSE and Ubuntu.
Furthermore, Genesi has contributed several thousand (US) dollars to AROS-related Power2People bounties so far.
