3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
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Abuse of the open source movement? What did they do?
Not even playing lip service to supporting the open source stuff they built upon. They've also recently been trying to lockdown and paywall (or just drop) features. Including legal action against people trying to undo the damage.
The general sniff test is they are trying to lock people in before milking them for all they can.
To be fair though, the reason Bambu Lab printers work so well for most is in large part due to the walled garden approach.
I still disagree with it and will vote with my wallet by avoiding them, but I can see the appeal if you don’t know any better (or just don’t care!).
Prusa kind of tries to navigate both sides of the issue (not everything is open source anymore), so you can still get caught there.
Prusa has at least built up some credit with the community. Bambu came in planning on locking people in.
Agreed, what Bambu did is essentially steal the work of everybody and close it up, and go against anyone trying to reopen it.
In one of their more recent asshat moves:
https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/developer-re-enables-3d-printer-features-that-bambu-lab-disabled-firm-promptly-threatens-legal-action-orcaslicer-bambulab-project-now-shuttered
That was definitely a nail in the coffin, as far as I am concerned. They've not passed my 'sniff test' since the start. The legal threats just show that they are doubling down, rather than backtracking.