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3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.
(media.piefed.social)
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1823177/3d-printer-reviewers-being-honest-in-this-industry-will-put-you-out-of-a-job
This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won't send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations. > > tl;dr Anycubic uses open-source software for their firmware, but doesn't make it public as per license agreement, and they don't seem to be friendly to anyone who calls this out. > > More info: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMpZTkXqFo0H6pDwhZpdYqMYvLhPvWA5?lc=UgxA-4LYvwrnonXuXsZ4AaABAg >
The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it's not as blatant as it is here, there's always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.
So much this. One reason why there are so super few honest Bambu Lab reviews out there, they understood how to do PR through influencers and used their VC money to send thousands of devices everywhere for basically free (and keep doing so) to build an overly positive lifestyle image. Those few who do actual deep dives and get cut off from new free devices simply drown in the masses. Meanwhile their printers melt themselves and the A1 Mini apparently likes to catch fire.
Anycubic is a whole different beast, they've known to basically steal stuff for many years (like when they took Prusa's first-gen MMU design and successfully patented a slightly different design). Shit like this is one of the reasons Prusa is meddling with new licenses in the first place.
Creality now went IPO and is blasting every corner of their products with AI. Elegoo also already broke licenses to close off their devices.
Pretty sure vendors like Snapmaker, Sovol or QIDI also have done a sufficient amount of shit.
Capitalism will always be a shitshow like this, and it's annoying. Ethical or even lawful behaviour shouldn't be something you have to be able to afford, it should be the fucking default because it's made free and beneficial to everyone.
Who isn't shitty and affordable at the same time in the 3D printing space?
Used Prusa.
so far Snapmaker seems to have a good trackrecord, and has earned the trust of many, as their successful u1 kickstarter showed.
they promised to opensource large parts of their by end of next month. Lets see how that turns out https://support.snapmaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/33344279396759-Snapmaker-U1-FAQ#h_01K4VWF124M7HRBZEB4SS4EM09
From the provided link, running out of days to keep that promise.