Open Source even after Qualcomm takeover?

Dear Modular team,

Congratulations on an interesting and important news. I was a bit surprised and confused by it though as Qualcomm hasn’t had a pro open-source image so far.

It is exciting from a hardware perspective if Mojo lands for the Snapdragon platform on phones & laptops, and perhaps even RISC-V on server and edge. But Linux support on X/X2 elite is still immature.

In any case, the non-Nvidia tier licensing would become weird when Qualcomm support lands. My immediate concerns though are about the permissible open source tier that hopefully isn’t stunted. That Mojo & MAX remain free and open to get into for the hobbyists and open source devs, and those inconspicuous tiny startups who might prefer to be valuable around a niche and not try to be in any billion dollar rush.

Hi @Kausch - we are still open sourcing Mojo this year - we can’t wait to share the details at ModCon, August 18th in San Francisco. This will be live streamed.

We hear you, and thank you for all the questions. We can’t address them right now, but we will host a community meeting to be scheduled soon and focused on answering questions from the community. Stay tuned for more details.