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Why does Arduino fear that cheap clones from Shenzhen will supposedly destroy their business model if full design files are released, but Adafruit (for example) does just fine?

Maybe Arduino needs to focus on good engineering, better value for money, good support and documentation, good user experience, losing the terrible slow bloated “IDE” which lacks any real IDE features, make something like a VSCode plugin which is much faster and built on a real IDE, and focus on bringing down their uncompetitive high hardware prices.

It’s not really an “industrial control” device. By brief inspection, it’s a BGA SoC breakout with 1.8V or 3.3V logic levels, directly from the SoC to the outside world.

An industrial device like a PLC would have galvanically isolated 24VDC digital inputs, 0-10V and 4-20mA galvanically isolated analog I/Os and galvanically isolated, short-circuit tolerant 24V high-side driver outputs, a case with a DIN mount and screw terminals.

This device is no more “industrial” than any other SoC.

It is also interesting that at some point, quietly, the Arduino engineers have quietly switched from Eagle to Altium.

People may complain Eagle is not Free software, but at least it has a free-beer license available to view and edit the files for noncommercial use, and it runs perfectly on Linux and MacOS.