Even commercial customers should be wary of Arduino now that they have been acquired by Qualcomm. All it means is higher prices and worse product offerings.
Aren’t the also extremely anticompetitive with their licences.
I remember a story from ages ago that they sued a bunch of their customers for using non Qualcomm chips in devices that had Qualcomm chips in them.
Yes, this wasn’t too long ago from what I remember. In a normal world, the Qualcomm executives would be put on trial for racketeering and the company would be broken up.
Even commercial customers should be wary of Arduino now that they have been acquired by Qualcomm. All it means is higher prices and worse product offerings.
And proprietary, so it will be the end of using compatible alternatives too.
Jup, this.
They’ll just plan obsolescence & paywall things.
Aren’t the also extremely anticompetitive with their licences.
I remember a story from ages ago that they sued a bunch of their customers for using non Qualcomm chips in devices that had Qualcomm chips in them.
Yes, this wasn’t too long ago from what I remember. In a normal world, the Qualcomm executives would be put on trial for racketeering and the company would be broken up.