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In an interview to Linux Voice, not long ago, Eben Upton said:

"You can build a business around [Raspberry Pi] because you can depend on them existing [...]"

Hence, my question: Has the Raspberry Pi already been used to build a proprietary product?

Say, for example, a console running a piece of closed-source proprietary software in kiosk mode or anything else?

P.S.: Apart from Eben Upton's own Raspberry Pi Trading business...

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If you google around you'll find several. The first that comes to my mind is slice. I would argue that it's not an optimal platform for a commercial product, but it's clearly possible and has been done.

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I was quite amused and surprised to find a Raspberry Pi sitting in the rack-mountable case for a PBX I recently bought— it's the XorCom Spark CXS1000. It handles calls over VoIP and Analog phone lines for a small business.

You can see the Pi in the PDF getting started guide on the final page, the Pi is the board on the right (you can just make out the RaspberryPi logo)

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