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What surprised me in the comments are people who use the software for their work who are complaining that they won't be getting updates for free on an Open Source project. People used to pay $$$ to buy licenses to libraries like this... People have a weird understanding of how Open Source works.

NVIDIA is way worse and QCOM are improving

Qualcomm is changing a lot. They are learning and adopting open source. I’ve seen this in other Silicon vendors, they used to deal only with big corps and would talk to you only if you promised to buy millions of parts. Now they are all moving to a model where they want an open ecosystem , attract developers, promote open source. It’s changing , it’s not going to be perfect, there will be false steps but the direction is good and we all benefit from this change. As someone else said they are way ahead of NVIDIA in open source adoption so you should keep an eye on Qualcomm

9600 even! :)

The arduino framework is optimised for ease of use. Battery powered devices were not the target back then when it was created. This benchmark should have used one of the many techniques that optimise for power consumption.

As the co-founder of Arduino I can confirm this was a great inspiration for me. I learned electronics with this kit when I was 7 and it gave me also a great appreciation for design as well. The way I taught electronics to designers was also inspired by the method used in the book that came with the kit. I still have the book from my original kit. It’s an amazing tool

have you read the actual email.. ? It's pretty bad. I've co-founded a very succesfull open source project and I can assure you a lot of people treat maintainers like crap. One guy sent me a few mails with veiled death threats because I banned him from the forum (He was harassing users and the community decide to boot him...)

users, especially beginners, like consistency. So you call that "stagnation" I call that "avoid adding stuff that people don't really need". We make more than 100 different products so we haven't stagnated at all.

Actually we're not going down that path at all. we are still doing the same things we were doing before. we have no plans for "enshittifying" our business model

What a fundamental contribution to the discussion :)

co founder of Arduino here) actually I hate web3 I think it's a pile of bullshit and it's slowly fading away... We've never been interested in that.

We do sell services but we try to avoid bullshit terms like "servitization"

no they won't... the money is used to develop our Professional products for enterprise customers.. the classic arduino will always be free. We've never build anything that would use licensing servers etc... BTW Arduino is headquartered in Switzerland/Italy/Sweden/USA so... no UK there

Actually there are 21000 companies that have bough our products and 2000 of them just the professional tools... so the situation is very different

If you respect the open source license , you're free to use the Arduino code in products. We offer a licensing scheme for companies that want to license the hardware designs to use in proprietary products. The IDE is there, it's free, it's more powerful than ever and it supports any architecture the community wants to work on. Free, no royalties no licenses etc