Fucking hell.

Qualcomm is one of the worst vendors out there to deal with if you're a small hardware developer - let alone the kind of hobbyist who wants to use Arduino boards.

In a perfect world? Qualcomm would use Arduino to bring some of their chipsets and devices to public, and have the Arduino team open them up to small developers. Essentially doing what Pi Foundation is doing for Broadcom - package their unpalatable ICs into something that people actually use.

But we're not in a perfect world. We're in the kind of world where Qualcomm exists in the first place.

The pessimist in me fully expects Qualcomm to make Arduino worse rather than Arduino to make Qualcomm better.