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Arduino Corp is going CLOSED-SOURCE! (elk.zone)
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This is a big deal. Arduino has accepted 32 million in VC money and the new "Pro" boards are not open source,so they won't be as easily cloned, and code and libraries in the ide could be unavailable to see or modify!

And I won't be using any of these boards.

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[–] baascus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Corporate greed is eyeing the digital commons of FOSS. The ethos of FOSS is under attack, as the ‘public parks’ of coding are being sold to the highest bidder. A land grab on our shared digital resources, reflecting the worst of unchecked capitalism. We must resist this commodification of communal knowledge and innovation, in defense of a truly democratic digital world.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

This sell out to a proprietary group is nothing new in the FOSS world. There's plenty of examples like MySQL going to Oracle. Fork the last open version and continue marching.