ekZepp@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-21 day agoThis is why we can't have nice things.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1610arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1598arrow-down1imageThis is why we can't have nice things.lemmy.worldekZepp@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoThe 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.
minus-squareFiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 hours agoTo 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.
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.
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.