If you have 5 RPi resellers and they all have to have the same price because the manufacturer tells them so is not a free market. There is no interplay between supply and demand.
I stand by my statement: you need to read it a few more times until you understand it.
The market is credit card sized arm based computers, not raspberry pi. If you narrow things too much then you can make anything not a market. Wal-Mart has a monopoly on apples if you narrow the market to inside their store.
> I stand by my statement: you need to read it a few more times until you understand it.
I understood your comment just fine, I just don't agree. Either way,as I commented earlier it's not the essence here so I see no point in further debating this particular point.
Arguing over what constitutes a "free market" is silly. It's a gradient, not a boolean. Every real-world financial market that exists has non-market forces that apply to it, even if they're just laws against fraud.
