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welp, I have sent a form letter back to them with the deletion of all my accounts. Stating that I do not agree to the terms and am no longer hosting or providing code for these items and not giving them any license to any code or projects before the update to said lic. I have a poke into a IP lawyer friend of mine to see what else I need to do.
We all saw this coming and its fucking sad, I hope someone new will take up the torch (again) put down by Qualcomm.
Thank you for taking decisive ethical action. I hope the example you've set will inspire others to act similarly.
I hope there is more I can do, and share to stop them just pillaging what was already out there, they bought the company not the IP of others. But I am sure they have scrapped all the code out there and they would just have someone repost all of it as 'other' users so they would control that.
Hmm. That's a good point and sounds like a fairly firm basis for a class action lawsuit.
its hard to prove if they do just the lightest bit of scrubbing for all comments and author marks.
I was thinking more of the presumption of ownership of customer IP being acquired as part of purchasing a company by way of a ToS change. That just seems like attempted retroactive theft to me.
its hard to say, I need to read the last one (and maybe even more) and see what the terms of acceptance on them was. Most times by acknowlaging the terms change and in writing saying you dont agree to them and agree to stop using the things that give said terms after the change date, and even then they could try and argue 'well xyz inside your home uses this chip/IP so you didnt follow the agreed cancellation of the terms you said you would do so we own all that code' and xyz is some fucking low function thing in an auto speed fan. They are just as bad as disney with the you agreed to disney+ streaming service so dying from food allergy that you mentioned and the staff knew about and said was taken care of, means you cant sue us and must let us give you 500$ and send you on your way.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did, given what they evidently already feel entitled to.
Nah, fuck picking up that torch, what we need to do is burn Qualcomm to the ground. Every. Last. Brick.
New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.
Oh hell to the no. Please don’t use software that requires selling your soul and firstborn child.
It’s completely pointless because if you’re forbidden from understanding how it works, why use it as a learning platform? It’s a toy. A useless toy.
Qualcomm and Arduino maintain that the acquisition will not alter the core spirit of the platform.
When has this ever been true?
Section 7.1 grants Arduino a perpetual, irrevocable license over anything you upload. Your code, projects, forum posts, and comments all fall under this. This remains in effect even after you delete your account. Arduino retains rights to your content indefinitely.
The license is also royalty-free and sublicensable. Arduino can use your content however they want, distribute it, modify it, and even sublicense it to others.
Holy shit the title doesn't cover it by half. This is beyond disappointing enshitification, it's a red light for any future use of Arduino.
I thought it would enshittify but I didn't think it would begin that quickly damn. Truly unfortunate.
I think not enough people care about stuff like that. Like with reddit. Maybe some sparks of outrage here and there, but no fire. In the end even the people that don't like the change come back, because they are used to it.
I think it's not that people don't care but rather that everything is going to shit so fast, people simply don't have the energy to rage against hundreds of machines.
This is 100% the reality. Capitalism is beating everyone into submission, but the inevitable end result of the enshittification of everything is the whole system being torn down, by force.
Divide and conquer with a twist.
every technical product as soon they get taken over by some corp.
Maybe I'll go back to picaxe. Or teensy.
Pioarduino is where it's at anyway.
Isn't this a software project? What about open hardware?
The hardware was usually based around an ATMEGA328p, which you can just buy. There's also loads of clones on the internet, some with sexier designs.
