A new chapter for Arduino – with Qualcomm, UNO Q, and you!  | Arduino Blog
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Today we’re sharing some truly exciting news: Arduino has entered into an agreement to join the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. family! This is a huge step in our journey – one that allows us to keep growing, thriving, and making technology accessible to everyone, while bringing our values of openness, simplicity, and community spirit to an […]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37022550

Today we’re sharing some truly exciting news: Arduino has entered into an agreement to join the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. family! This is a huge step in our journey – one that allows us to keep growing, thriving, and making technology accessible to everyone, while bringing our values of openness, simplicity, and community spirit to an […]

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    87·
    2 days ago

    Well that fucking sucks. One of the few major tech companies we could be proud of in Europe, staunch supporters of open source principles. Now part of a soulless American tech corporation. RIP Arduino.

  • bilgamesch@feddit.orgEnglish
    481·
    2 days ago

    R.I.P

    Enshittification ensues. We should have some legislation that forbids such sales to US- or CN-Companies. They may invest, but they may never hold majority shares. Shit’s ruining us from the inside out.

  • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    This amounts to treason in the current environment.

    Also I don’t like the trend of EU companies buying US money pits like Chrisler and Monsanto and then the EU corporate class turns around and sells highly profitable companies for pennies or just gets their companies assassinated prior to acquisition (*nokia much?).

    Our politicians are spineless cheap whores, like most famous US stand up comedians apparently.

      • verdi@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Relatively unbiased take on it.

        Personally I see it as rich whores performing for other rich whores and local feudal fucks.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Free movement of capital and consolidation strike again. As someone who has worked with Qualcomm, the company, this is not good, very bad indeed.

  • tal@olio.cafeEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Hah! In a world where everyone’s hot topic is heavyweight, highly-parallel-compute chips, there’s a lightweight, serial-compute chipmaker making the news.