@mattgrayyes @Raspberry_Pi It's a bit concerning to be honest. I know corporation are not our friends and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a corporation with a charity on the side, but so far they seemed like the good guys.
At my dayjob we based our products around their compute modules (we go through 100-250 of them per year), because of the good the documentation and the large, helpful community around raspi based computers.
While I don't speak for my employer, in my personal opinion the way they handle this situation is frankly not acceptable and has the potential to turn our reliance on their products into a reputation problem for us.