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Ardino Wars

Jan Cumps

I'm having a tough time with Arduino. Probably like a number of people these days.

 

A: There's this sentiment of disgust with how SRL acts as a business partner. But the adult me knows what business is like sometimes. They're all adult. Both LLC and SRL are real businesses operating in the business biosphere.

B: On the other side there's LLC. They have my community and open source support. But they're posting communiques that want to tap into that sympathy. They play the hurt partner. Even though they are also a full partner of situation A.

 

When adult, big companies start to post emotional posts to get support from a community, warning lights start to flash in my castle.

Please stop that  and take some business worthy decisions as a company.

Check what Adafruit did. They have made decisions based on the dispute. But they have steered away from the emotional part  - even firmly stated that they would not comment on the situation.

 

In my world, businesses should do business. Feel free to build, or tap into, a community. Both sides win.

Here both businesses are loosing. Maybe we see some great products, but the magic and chemistry are lost. Forever.  All sides lost.

My no-go zone is when a business tries to pull a community into its business affairs. Grow a pair.

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  • Since I'm not an Arduino user, I haven't paid any attention to the Arduino Wars.  Do they have any real effect on end users?

     

    It's a shame to see a good community go south due to squabbles, but it's pretty common.  Fortunately, there are often plenty of alternatives.  To me, Arduino products seem overpriced compared to the many other alternative boards such as TI LaunchPads, STM Discovery, Cypress PSoC 4 (some boards as cheap as US$4), Freescale Freedom, NXP mbed and LPCXpresso, and many others.  Many support Arduino shields.

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    John Beetem wrote:

     

    Since I'm not an Arduino user, I haven't paid any attention to the Arduino Wars.  Do they have any real effect on end users?

     

    ...

    I think that end-user for a community oriented company as Arduino.x is something different than end users for (say, because it's their controller on the popular Arduinos)  Atmel.

    The real power of Arduino is their representation and value in the maker community. They are huge there. So is their impact, influence and reputation.

    There are a number of boards out there that are similarly or lower priced, with much more power.

    But that is not what it's about in that playground, is it?

    Other large microcontroller, microprocessor and FPGA companies bring out development boards with Arduino compatible headers - when they want to appeal to makers. That about sums it up.

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  • in reply to johnbeetem

    John Beetem wrote:

     

    Since I'm not an Arduino user, I haven't paid any attention to the Arduino Wars.  Do they have any real effect on end users?

     

    ...

    I think that end-user for a community oriented company as Arduino.x is something different than end users for (say, because it's their controller on the popular Arduinos)  Atmel.

    The real power of Arduino is their representation and value in the maker community. They are huge there. So is their impact, influence and reputation.

    There are a number of boards out there that are similarly or lower priced, with much more power.

    But that is not what it's about in that playground, is it?

    Other large microcontroller, microprocessor and FPGA companies bring out development boards with Arduino compatible headers - when they want to appeal to makers. That about sums it up.

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