⚠️ Qualcomm just bought Arduino, holy f*ck.
Huge loss for everyone, including Qualcomm, there's no way they'll recover their money once we ran away.
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@jbz Yeah, this surprised me given the big controversy over the previous Arduino/Arduino split because the HW manufacturer had IP rights to the designs. Not sure what it really means though (other than trademark ownership) I'm guessing most of the ecosystem is already out there under licenses that prevents Qualcomm from taking market control.
> Qualcomm says they will maintain Arduino's open-source software and hardware ethos.
It's right there next to "there won't be any layoffs after the merger"
Qualcomm has always been hostile to open source.
@jbz Not sure how I feel about this - - I'm guessing the move is to the AI side because the Arduino app is supporting all the off brand clones.
My guess is that they will stop development on the "traditional" low end Arduino board support and focus instead on the Qualcomm chip side, and use MicroPython support for the STM32.
Now, Broadcom should consider supporting the #micropython project if they don't already, and also look at #pybricks for how to do a web app that lets you write Python code or make a block based programs ...
This is obviously another casualty of the AI bubble mania. Even if we don't flee, they're gonna force Arduino to focus on AI that most won't care once the bubble bursts. It dies either way unfortunately.
@jbz I wonder if this also falls under doctorow's enshittification classification
@jbz well, at least they say they're keeping the project open source
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