[mbanzi]

Hi (co founder of Arduino here) We're not doing any of that. Our partnerships based on products and whatever processor is the most useful for what we're trying to build. We're mostly working on robust industrial products that maintain the ease of use of the Arduino framework and we sell those to enterprises. very simple

[gustavus]

The turkey got to the farm. The Chickens all told him to fear the farmer, that one day the farmer would kill and cook and eat him.

When the farmer came the first time the turkey hid full of fear, but the farmer came and instead of death and fear brought food. The farmer took care of the turkey, feeding him well, making sure he had a warm place to stay. All along the chickens warned the turkey, the farmer was going to come and eat him, but the Turkey thought.

"The Farmer is so nice, he takes care of me so much and loves me, these chickens don't have any idea what they were talking are talking about. They are just foolish scared chickens", the turkey thought.

Then one fateful November day instead of a bag of feed the farmer brought an axe....

Many tech people have seen this happen over and over again, they know that when the VCs come, eventually so will the axe.

[Gud]

Maybe in this case mbanzi will be the farmer?

You don’t know Arduinos master plan.

[yetihehe]

Maybe we will be the turkeys?

[malfist]

Not doing any of that _today_.

VC's don't like to leave money on the table, and there's a long history of companies going back on their promises to their users in the years following accepting VC money.

[moralestapia]

pinky promise ;)

[chrstphrknwtn]

What if I start to make enterprise products called Coolduino, and I say "my products are for the Arduino framework ecosystem" - will you come after me?

[squeaky-clean]

They have a license page for this

https://support.arduino.cc/hc/en-us/articles/4415094490770-L...

Not-legally-binding tl;dr The "duino" suffix could be a trademark issue. If you rename it and you keep your hardware designs open source you're fine. Otherwise contact them for a proprietary use license.

[chrstphrknwtn]

Hmmm that's a bummer, maybe I'll just fork it, call it something else and then claim I created it in a weekend.

[squeaky-clean]

CC-BY-SA-4.0, so you also can't claim original creation of it, you have to maintain an attribution to the original creator and you cannot change the license.