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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Not sure why they would or could?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

There's some community history, but the short version is that the US patent office issued Slice a patent for surgical tube in hot ends* which Slice has then used to litigate away competition. As a result, Slice's actions have not sat particularly well with the parts of the 3d printing community that value open source and community innovation.

* there's some debate as to the validity of that patent as there's evidence that this idea dates back to the early reprap movement. Source.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, I missed the joke then.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Because money.

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