[grammarprofess]

How's it sad? How does it affect you? They made it clear they want to protect customers from low quality clones

[stavros]

In my experience, "low quality clones" means "clones that work perfectly well but don't bring in any of the money we spent on R&D", which is fair.

[kube-system]

Usually they work just fine, and at home, I buy knockoffs for my hobbyist projects.

At work? Only name-brand stuff. A consistent product and process is more important than saving a couple bucks.

[netr0ute]

It's ironic because Arduino is all about FOSH, except for the one thing that might actually get used in the "real world."