Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
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Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
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Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#2This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community.
Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some innovative elements like an RTOS. Hopefully, the arduino environment moves forward even faster from now on.
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#3This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community. Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some i…
Sleazy offshoot? Could you give me some examples; genuinely curious about it.
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#4This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community. Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some i…
Sleazy offshoot? Could you give me some examples; genuinely curious about it.
It's kind of detailed and murky, but I dug up a couple of links to look at:
http://www.open-electronics.org/from-arduino-to-genuino-the-...
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/12/arduino-v-arduino-part-ii/
For a long while, most people didn't understand the turmoil in the arduino market. The competing arduino.srl tried to fork the ide and even the history of the project.
Here's a direct statement from Banzi Massimo: http://makezine.com/2015/03/19/massimo-banzi-fighting-for-ar...
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#5So this means the two feuding Auduino sides have made up, or merged?
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#6This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community. Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some i…
Sleazy offshoot? Could you give me some examples; genuinely curious about it.
There was originally a company called Smart Projects SRL. They manufacture boards. Arduino LLC was the company originally founded for the Arduino project, and Smart Projects SRL manufactured the actual boards for them, because it's owned by one of the Arduino project founders, Gianluca Martino, and they were all friends. That's the backstory.
But when Arduino LLC tried to register the Arduino trademark, it turned out Gianluca Martino had registered the trademark for his own company two years prior, and not told the others. (Arduino LLC got the trademark in the USA, but were not able to register it anywhere else) This happened in 2008. At the time, they just agreed to stay friends and not make a big deal of it.
Then, last year, Smart Projects SRL made a big deal of it. They renamed their company Arduino SRL, registered arduino.org and cut their ties to Arduino LLC. This was reportedly because LLC wanted to start licensing the name to other manufacturers, but SRL wanted to keep official Arduino manufacturing to themselves. This led to the arduino.cc/arduino.org split.
That's pretty sleazy and anti-open source of them if you ask me.
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#7This is huge news. Glad to see a sleazy offshoot reconciling with the open source community. They originally hijacked the name and tried to strong arm a lot of businesses, which seemed to hurt the arduino community. Even though it was the biggest and most influential hobbyist electronics environment, there have been other mcu based environments popping up. Some were offshoots, such as TI's Energia, which added some i…
Sleazy offshoot? Could you give me some examples; genuinely curious about it.
For anyone interested in the history of Arduino, definitely read The Untold History of Arduino:
https://arduinohistory.github.io
I think it's really appaling how the original inventor is (not) credited.
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#8So this means the two feuding Auduino sides have made up, or merged?
"yes" (in theory. I believe actions speak louder than words, so that's what I'm waiting for.)
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#9So this means the two feuding Auduino sides have made up, or merged?
Didn't you just rephrase the headline?
Re: Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sleazy offshoot? Could you give me some examples; genuinely curious about it.
For anyone interested in the history of Arduino, definitely read The Untold History of Arduino: https://arduinohistory.github.io I think it's really appaling how the original inventor is (not) credited.
Here's an article on the topic:
https://hackaday.com/2016/03/04/wiring-was-arduino-before-ar...