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).
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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.
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
Rossman is right to repairs gigachad
Not all heroes wear capes.
Ngl, at times I found that he was pretty exaggerating and just talking way too much bullshit at companies, because I thought that all of these topics are not that important and you kinda need to have some dependence on big companies because you can't do it in a good way yourself or open source or whatever. But recent events have shown that you should battle against companies and also you can do stuff yourself, if you just keep going and host a great community.
Kudos to Rossmann for his work.
clone, star, fork. we can all help out.
Not on GitHub or any other platform complying with takedown requests though.
I guess he's making a calculated decision that a law suit would be good to establish a precedent based on the GPL
I wonder why companies use GPL based software, when the BSD licensed stuff is just sitting there, free to use without the hassle?
Middle-managers don’t give a shit. Most of the time, nothing happens. Devs use whatever they know or can understand easiest while matching requirements. Enforcement depends on discovery, and there can be a high bar for discovery. Correction depends on enforcement, and there can be an even higher legal bar for enforcement.
Good! But this doesn't have anything todo with linux....
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.
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....
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.
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