Arduino VS Arduino

[Pirate88179]

Arduino is suing Arduino:

http://hackaday.com/2015/02/25/arduino-v-arduino/

This may greatly screw-up their producing newer model boards.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

That's weird. Corporate greed raises its ugly head. I hope this isn't the beginning of the end for Arduino.

[MarkE]

This reminds me of the break-up between MIPS and IDT.  Both suffered.

I think that there is so much out there in Arduino-land that is open source that anyone who wants could make a legally clean replacement.  So, as I see it, any argument is over the value of the brand.  That is fixed by selling "Arduino-compatible" product. 

[e2matrix]

No worries about supplies of Arduino stuff.   China will crank them out by the millions regardless of any of this going on.   Consider how sue happy Apple is and how they try to protect every little thing they have patents on (like rounded corners - LOL).   Then go look at aliexpress.com and do a search for iPhones.   You'll see hundreds of exact copies of iPhone 5 and 6 that look identical complete with Apple logos and markings.   Same for Android phones like Samsungs.   

[scratchrobot]

Who needs an Arduino when we have the ESP8266 with NodeMCU