Im not getting whats going on here, are people worried that they won't be able to use Arduino clones? Is Arduino worried they are loosing out to cheap import clones?
I would hate to see Arduino go the same way as apple with licenses, cryptography and such, Proton devepment suite lost favour and i guess a few customer when they introduced a USB compiler key dongle, i have bought an official duemilanove and many official shields, i have also bought a cheap Mega board from china because at the time that is what my budget allowed, but i stll support the Arduino effort and comment on this forum, if Arduino becomes a controlled environment people will move away to maybe Amicus18 (for example), Personally Pic's are my first choice for serious dev'ing but i still love the ease and simplicity of Arduino and will continue to use it