Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer
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Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive.
  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    I guess he’s making a calculated decision that a law suit would be good to establish a precedent based on the GPL

  • wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org
    32·
    8 hours ago

    Louis Rossmann is a hero for using his platform to advocate for consumer rights. I hope he has the continuous support to do this in the future. I would love to support his repair business based on this alone but I live in Europe so I just have to keep posting fanboy comments like this one

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
    82·
    10 hours ago

    The core point is: The printer runs FOSS software with a GPL license, but the company has modified it with the purpose to tie it to their own cloud service (like these HP inkjet printers for example).

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      That’s not strictly accurate.

      The slicer is Open Source yes, but not the printer firmware or software. That’s closed source and proprietary to Bambu.

      Now there’s some contention there because a lot of the features and ideas that make modern 3D printing as reliable and great were developed in the open, under open source licenses and Bambu has definitely implemented many of them in their printer firmware, but they don’t infringe any licenses in the printer software itself (as far as anyone is aware).

      This whole debacle centres around the slicing software, which is separate from the printer itself (though is necessary to actually use the printer) and it’s AGPL.

  • Novi Sad@feddit.org
    48·
    10 hours ago

    Now, if you’re one of the lawyers for Bambu labs, … I sincerely hope that you are not taking this case on contingency by the way—please charge an hourly fee

    Nice.

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      9 hours ago

      Would Linux’s license not count as about Linux? I don’t know if this is the case here but there’s a lot of companies that sell hardware running Linux and refuse to follow the license, e.g. by providing source code.

      • Smackyroon@lemmy.ml
        71·
        9 hours ago

        If we did that then just about anything technology could be posted here…then itd jus be another general technology sub…which we have a bazillion of already haha!

        edity edit, the word linux doesn’t even appear anywhere on the article page…

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        42·
        9 hours ago

        Linux’s license not count as about Linux?

        Philosophically, no.

        In set theory, also no.

        Legally, still no.

        Does it contain similar letters? Like Laughter and Slaughter do, yes.