This is the kind of acquisition where it actually benefits the community with tight integration and more financial support for open development, in the short term.

But once the Arduino community has added real value to Qualcomm, they will have already cycled through multiple executive teams post acquisition, and one of them will inevitably view all investment into Arduino as a loss center.

Then it’s only a matter of time before they paywall hardware functionality and updates behind a subscription, Arduino Pro+++.