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Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules [New ToS] Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (thenewstack.io)
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Chief microcontroller rival Adafruit has argued that the new terms threaten open principles by restricting reverse engineering of cloud tools, asserting perpetual licenses over user uploads and implementing broad monitoring for AI-related features.

Arduino has defended the changes, claiming restrictions only apply to its SaaS cloud applications, that data handling is standard for modern platforms, and its commitment to open source hardware remains unchanged.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 15 points 5 months ago

Adaruit and arduino both don't make microcontrollers lol

Adafruit can literally just fork it and rehost it. It would be a perfect time to mode arduino to an independent non-microsoft instance and move all of their website links pointing to github arduino repos.