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> It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look I never followed all the ins and outs but from having a quick look through the comments on https://

> It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look I never followed all the ins and outs but from having a quick look through the comments on https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 the following happened: - Developer independent of RPi opens PR to add RP2040 support to PlatformIO - PlatformIO don't want to merge it, expecting some financial contribution to help maintain the support (seems reasonable) - They discuss this with RPi, ultimately RPi don't want to pay the asked contributions so that PlatformIO are happy maintaining support (this also seems reasonable) - End result is no RP2040 support in PlatformIO Ultimately maintaining things isn't free. RPi have chosen the development environment(s) they wish to support and it hasn't included PlatformIO. What's weird or a bad look?

sangnoir 2y ago
> Ultimately maintaining things isn't free. This is a hypocritical stance for any project that accepts free contributions from the public. Besides rent-seeking, what reason could justify preventing the community from maintaining features/microcontrollers that the organization is unwilling to (due to costs)?
- KaiserPro 2y ago
  > Besides rent-seeking, what reason could justify preventing the community from maintaining features/microcontrollers that the organization is unwilling to (due to costs)? Platformio I suspect.
moefh 2y ago
The problem (to me) is that they welcomed that PR and requested corrections until it was in a good enough shape to be accepted, without any indication that it wouldn't be accepted unless/until they had financial support from RPi. That only became clear almost a year after the PR was opened.