when I heard about Qualcomm buying Arduino I thought what different relationships they have with developers and then I thought maybe that's why they're buying them? Leendert van Doorn engineering SVP @ qualcomm tells me I've figured it out but @monkchips.com warns me it's going to be a balancing act

it will be fascinating to see if the two cultures can learn from and improve each other; I wonder if it would have worked better if Arduino had ever set up that foundation that kind of fell by the wayside

and for all the people who will rightly be saying 'Qualcomm?!' followed by whatever choice phrase, I'll note that where I know Leendert van Dorn from is incubating (eventually Windows) Arm server hardware at Microsoft