platform-raspberrypi

> It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look I never followed all the ins and outs but from having a quick look through the comments on https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 the following happened: - Developer independent of RPi opens PR to add RP2040 support to PlatformIO - PlatformIO don't want to merge it, expecting some financial contribution to help maintain the support (seems reasonable) - They discuss this with RPi, ultimately RPi don't want to pay the asked contributions so that PlatformIO are happy maintaining support (this also seems reasonable) - End result is no RP2040 support in PlatformIO Ultimately maintaining things isn't free. RPi have chosen the development environment(s) they wish to support and it hasn't included PlatformIO. What's weird or a bad look?

It seems like Espressif are in the same situation as Pi w/r/t PlatformIO[1]. As an outsider, it sounds like PlatformIO was trying to extract a very large annual payment from RPi and Espressif, and that was after the initial support was added in, and some of the community started adopting it. It's a weird situation, but I think PlatformIO built up a dominant position by supporting all these platforms and accepting community contributions to do so, then tried extracting value from the manufacturers directly after the fact, blocking further community PRs that would add new board revisions or fix bugs. See related: [2] [1] https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/12... [2] https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36