That said, our goal is to brave the waters of the FCC to provide quality radio products to the open source community. If we succeed in getting funded, we should be able to handle the occasional new testing needed for any product changes.

We have some higher volume plans which will help pay for that. Arduino is only part of what we're doing. :)

This all started because there weren't any open source module designs for the CC1100 radio, so I made one and put it on github (actually I was using the 2.4ghz CC2500 at first). Eventually I slapped an arduino on, and boom, useful thing!

Of course, then you can only sell to hams...