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Arduino vs Arduino

posted by LaminatorX on Friday April 24 2015, @12:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the hard-fork dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

John Boxall posted this to Google+ and I thought it would be of interest to Soylentils:

Apparently there has been a split in the community behind the hardware side of the Arduino boards, with one long-time member of the team apparently being the major driver behind the split. There's a lot more detail in Boxall's editorial as well as his comments.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday April 24 2015, @12:48PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday April 24 2015, @12:48PM (#174618) Journal

    I have to take issue with this summation in the editorial:

    Finally, a great lesson can be learned from these recent events. If your team comes up with a great idea, product or service – before you get serious spend the time and resources required to formalise ownership of intellectual property, naming rights, copyrighted work, and so forth.

    Well, that's all fine and good if you're already a millionaire to begin with, or you have a rich uncle who's backing you all the way, but here in the real world taking those steps involves hiring lawyers who will drag their feet and suck the life out of you every chance they get. Then, even if you have paid lawyers to do all that stuff for you, it only takes a bigger player with deeper pockets to come along, decide they like the "nice little business you got there" and drag you through the courts on patent fights until you're bankrupt.

    So, no, hiring a bunch of lawyers to do all that stuff is not the "great lesson" to be learned. Being very careful about the people you choose for your team is.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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  • (Score: 1) by Katastic on Friday April 24 2015, @01:07PM

    by Katastic (3340) on Friday April 24 2015, @01:07PM (#174626)

    A good lawyer makes you money. If you don't have a lawyer, you're not a professional.

    --Mike Monteiro

    [source] [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2) by morgauxo on Friday April 24 2015, @01:42PM

    by morgauxo (2082) on Friday April 24 2015, @01:42PM (#174641)

    I disagree with it for a different reason.

    It's open source. What IP or copyright is there to protect and from who?

    The real fight is over the trademark. If they registered the trademark then they registered it. End of story. The real problem isn't that they didn't lawyer up enough, it's that they didn't register the trademark in all the countries they planned to do business in.