benjojoOct 7, 2025

Qualcomm owns Arduino, Hackaday is owned by Siemens

My teenage electronics hobby landscape is now owned by the companies that would never supply datasheets to me back then

Show threadTea time.

@benjojo You think that's bad?
I used to manage many of the volunteer teams at LiveJournal.com, back when it was a community-run, donation-funded, open source social media community.

It's now part of a media conglomerate that's majority-owned by the Russian government.

Oct 17 at 9:58pmElk