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This is why we can't have nice things. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

The closest they've come so far is prioritizing industrial customers and compute modules for a while during a chip shortage, to my memory. Hopefully they stick to their roots in the hobbyist/educational sector.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    To be fair, if most of your funding (source needed) comes from industrial customers, not supplying them is a good way to lose their patronage.

    So even if it sucked for hobbyists at that moment, keeping a big player like RbP viable for the long term might not be too bad of a tradeoff.

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