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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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Bambu straight used open source slicer and made it proprietary too?
And you have to be connected to their cloud service to print anything so there’s IP and security concerns for companies.
IIRC Slic3r and all its derivatives are copyleft though, not permissive. Is Bambu doing a GPL violation?
That’s ripe for abuse.
Sounds like they’re going that route that some other manufacturers and slicers are going for “public safety” by preventing people from printing things like guns, but then it’s going to extend to more under the same guise.