ekZepp@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-25 days agoThis is why we can't have nice things.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1535arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1524arrow-down1imageThis is why we can't have nice things.lemmy.worldekZepp@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/arduinos-new-terms-of-service-worries-hobbyists-ahead-of-qualcomm-acquisition/
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up23·5 days agoUp next: Raspberry foundation enshitification.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoThere are already several places chomping at the bit to unseat them as the SBC default.
minus-squareQuetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoThe closest they’ve come so far is prioritizing industrial customers and compute modules for a while during a chip shortage, to my memory. Hopefully they stick to their roots in the hobbyist/educational sector.
minus-squareFiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoTo be fair, if most of your funding (source needed) comes from industrial customers, not supplying them is a good way to lose their patronage. So even if it sucked for hobbyists at that moment, keeping a big player like RbP viable for the long term might not be too bad of a tradeoff.
Up next: Raspberry foundation enshitification.
There are already several places chomping at the bit to unseat them as the SBC default.
The closest they’ve come so far is prioritizing industrial customers and compute modules for a while during a chip shortage, to my memory. Hopefully they stick to their roots in the hobbyist/educational sector.
To be fair, if most of your funding (source needed) comes from industrial customers, not supplying them is a good way to lose their patronage.
So even if it sucked for hobbyists at that moment, keeping a big player like RbP viable for the long term might not be too bad of a tradeoff.