Nick Poole@North@chaos.social
Maybe it's more personal for people who were there at the inception, but I was late to the game and while I absolutely drank the kool-aid for a while, I did eventually become disillusioned with the whole thing before my entire self-conception was based on it. Even then, it has been an ongoing struggle to separate the things that are good and human (transparency, sharing, cooperation, creativity) from the things that are extractive and exploitative about "our hobby"
Nick Poole@North@chaos.social
All this is to say: You don't get to get rich off Arduino and then act shocked and disgusted when it's subsumed by capital interests. Not within the context of the economy that produced it.
Can you be disappointed? Of course. Sad? Angry? Of course, you should be. But by that measure, you should be sad and angry about everything
Fuck Qualcomm, yes. But furthermore, fuck the whole thing top to bottom.
