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I wasn't particularly surprised by this. I've got a copy of an unreleased "Arduino" product that was never going to be open source that I beta tested for them.
by ChuckMcM 5y ago
I wasn't particularly surprised by this. I've got a copy of an unreleased "Arduino" product that was never going to be open source that I beta tested for them.
I suspect a large portion of the community is not averse to people supporting themselves on these sorts of projects and frankly, open source efforts do not seem to have a track record of supporting the people who support them.
- RF_Savage 5y agoRaspberry Pi has shown that you don't need to be open source to be well liked. But you need to be affordable. And thanks to their relationship with Broadcom and Broadcom being Broadcom there are no cheaper clone raspberry pi's out there.
- pjmlp 5y agoBeagle was there first, but it didn't had a country education system sponsoring it.
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoThat's fair, but they don't seem to have a great track record with the resellers either. https://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-arduino-any-more/ https://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-ard... https://hackaday.com/2015/04/15/arduino-vs-arduino-the-resellers-conundrum/ https://hackaday.com/2015/04/15/arduino-vs-arduino-the-resel... https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/arduino-federico-musto-will-pursue-other-opportunities-outside-arduino-freearduino/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/arduino-federico-musto-...