"we have been open-source long before it was fashionable"

An abridged timeline:

1960s to 1980s: hobbyist and academic/research computing create thriving public domain software ecosystems (literally the birth of FOSS)

1983: The GNU Project begins

1989: The World Wide Web is created

1991: Linus Torvalds posts the first Linux kernel to USENET

1992: 386BSD is released; Slackware is created

1993: NetBSD is forked; Debian is created

1994: FreeBSD 2 is released

1995: Red Hat is created

[a decade of FOSS and the internet changing computing and research forever]

2005: A collection of low-cost microcontroller education tools, benefiting from half a century of FOSS, is formalized into something called "Arduino"

"We are Arduino. We are open. We’re not going anywhere."

-- statement from Qualcomm without a single human being's name on it

Sorry, you got bought by Qualcomm and that was suicide.

I don't get it, do we keep the pitchforks out, or do we stash the pitchforks?

This is so full of vapid corporate speak, it’s ripe for one of those joke “translation” posts:

> We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates.

Translation: Y’all are angry about us changing what we stood for.

> We are thankful our community cares enough to engage with us and we believe transparency and open dialogue are foundational to Arduino.

Translation: You fuckers are loud and this is blowing up in our faces, so we need to do damage control fast or the acquisition will be worthless.

Adafruit acted a bit shady here. Their original post includes:

"Military weird things"

Reading the ToS, the two mentions of military are "don't use our AI product for military use" and in the export and trade controls section.

How are either of those weird?

This allays my suspicions. I appreciate the response to this community’s concerns.