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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 de (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Apparently their dual extruder implementation works far better than any other on the market which is a huge deal for printing supports that don't stick. Several of my friends have them and all love the print quality (it's far better than anything I've gotten out of my printers). The pricing is admittedly great too.

I don't have any issues with my i3 so won't be getting one anytime soon, but I absolutely see why people new to 3D printing will go straight to Bambu. It sucks that they actively chose to be bad for the open source community they built their company on top of.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair all of the companies in the 3D printing industry built their business on the backs of the open source community and pretty much all of them are some level of shitty towards the community. Creality and most others regularly violate licenses by dragging their feet and only complying when people really complain. Even Prusa has started to back away from open source.

    Bambu is just catching shit for being the Apple of 3D printing. They are trying the hardest to build a walled garden.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know about walled garden they haven't shown anything about limiting other filaments. That would be the big one. I admit I started buying their filament but it's because where I live it is one of the cheapest options especially when buying bulk.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    They are keeping tight control over with what software you can use to run your printer. They've only ever moved in a more restrictive direction. They're turning up the temp little by little, some day their customers will be in hot water.

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