Qualcomm has acquired the open-source hardware and software company Arduino as a strategic move to boost its presence in edge computing and diversify beyond the mobile phone market. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-amid-edge-computing-push-130012919.htm
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@nixCraft That's a shame. They will just enshittify arduino.
@nixCraft feel a bit sick reading this to be honest. Guess that's the last time I buy anything from Arduino.
@nixCraft
Get ready arduino hobbyists! Your stuff is about to be subscription only, at 100x the old pricee, per anum, forever. They will raise frivolous lawsuits against all competitors to ensure no alternatives remain.
I predict a massive loss of market share as customers flee the plague that is Qualcom. It's just a bunch of evil fuckwad greed mongers pretending to "do" tech. Zero value ever provided to humanity, only a legacy of exploitation and extraction has been left in their wake.
Is this a good or a bad thing?
@nixCraft
Enshitification by purchase? Purchashitification?
And another falls..