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You left out an important detail: Project C is going to have to _support_ your "free" code in their product. If it breaks, even if not because of anything Project C did, their paying customers are going to demand work from THEM.

    if i want the prestige of my code being in their project

LOL yeah that's definitely why this contribution is happening /s

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> If it breaks, even if not because of anything Project C did, their paying customers are going to demand work from THEM.

Well... isn't that what their customers are paying them for?

Exactly. If PlatformIO had enough paying customers who needed support for this chip, they would probably want to add support for it themselves.

It's the non-paying "customers" who are the problem here, expecting PlatformIO to grow in ways that the core team sees as unsustainable.

Then they should take their beef to “person A”, not to me. My example properly captures my noninvolvement. Just like in TFA, RPi was not involved. Someone else made the patch, then PlatformIO demanded money from RPi

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