Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

If you are not sure what to think about this news, may I suggest:

WE ARE SO BONED

Big name corporate investments are usually a death sentence to the smaller entity. 
what will happen. about 9months in, someone at Q-coprate will think:
"we should be making more money on this investment"
then theyll make some changes, folks will think it sucks, ( it will )
and theyll loose revenue. then several things may happen but the results are all the same relative to suck levels.
corporate may pull funding causes chaos in the smaller firm. 
doubles down on funding, but somehow produces worse code and products. 
corporate restructuring.. ( corporate fires the folks who were sorta figuring out how to make corporate objectives align with open source product development, and replace them with folks focused ob the corporate agenda, and less of an idea of what is actually going on )

in the mean time, you can look forward to binary blobs and spin off unique products 

if youve been programming embeded systems for a minute, youve seen this before, and should suspect more of the same. 

hey remeber a year ago when the opta arduino plc came out, and they originally refused to produce linux compatible binaries?
It was worse than that they actively prevented the binaries from running on linux but whatever. I asked Arduino about it, and the reason was cited as needing to protect investor interests. 
yeah, they backed down eventually, and did release linux support, but only after the product flopped. those source contributors were significantly smaller than 
MF Qualcom. 

We've seen this in paralax, Microchip, Cyprus, nxp, and 1000 other times. even a monkey would get bored after seeing the pattern play out so many times. 

the corporate investor will assure users OG company, and policies will remain intact: same great product, now with extra funding!
hey remember when net neutrality died and right before every ISP was like: we would never grant preferential treatment to corporate investors. then neutrality  died and all the promises of a fair and equitable internet vaporized. I digress. 

have fun while it lasts boys.

If you are not sure what to think about this news, may I suggest:

WE ARE SO BONED

Big name corporate investments are usually a death sentence to the smaller entity. 
what will happen. about 9months in, someone at Q-coprate will think:
"we should be making more money on this investment"
then theyll make some changes, folks will think it sucks, ( it will )
and theyll loose revenue. then several things may happen but the results are all the same relative to suck levels.
corporate may pull funding causes chaos in the smaller firm. 
doubles down on funding, but somehow produces worse code and products. 
corporate restructuring.. ( corporate fires the folks who were sorta figuring out how to make corporate objectives align with open source product development, and replace them with folks focused ob the corporate agenda, and less of an idea of what is actually going on )

in the mean time, you can look forward to binary blobs and spin off unique products 

if youve been programming embeded systems for a minute, youve seen this before, and should suspect more of the same. 

hey remeber a year ago when the opta arduino plc came out, and they originally refused to produce linux compatible binaries?
It was worse than that they actively prevented the binaries from running on linux but whatever. I asked Arduino about it, and the reason was cited as needing to protect investor interests. 
yeah, they backed down eventually, and did release linux support, but only after the product flopped. those source contributors were significantly smaller than 
MF Qualcom. 

We've seen this in paralax, Microchip, Cyprus, nxp, and 1000 other times. even a monkey would get bored after seeing the pattern play out so many times. 

the corporate investor will assure users OG company, and policies will remain intact: same great product, now with extra funding!
hey remember when net neutrality died and right before every ISP was like: we would never grant preferential treatment to corporate investors. then neutrality  died and all the promises of a fair and equitable internet vaporized. I digress. 

have fun while it lasts boys.