"the creators" who praised the product in the first place?
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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.
You need to keep purging what is left of liberalism in your system.
What
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).
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.
The slicer is Open Source yes, but not the printer firmware or software.
The firmware is not unlikely to be linux-based. And hardware drivers for Linux are part of the kernel which is under GPL license.
If that's the case, then it should be trivial to prove and the EFF can force them to open source it.
Let's not make baseless accusations, let's get proof and hold them to it.
Most 3d printer firmwares run on a microcontroller without Linux.
Not if they're kernel modules, written from scratch, afaik
That's not how it works. Kernel modules are part of the kernel and need to adhere to its license, which is GPLv2.
Of my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic
Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1
So I feel like this is definitely still possible and 'legal' depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years.
IANAL though :p
Absolute assholes
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
Tech Jesus been doing good too- aka Gamers Nexus or GNCA
I guess he's making a calculated decision that a law suit would be good to establish a precedent based on the GPL
He actually says that in ine of his bamboolab videos
That, and just how the publicity in either case helps to get people on board for right to repair initiatives.
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.
clone, star, fork. we can all help out.
Not on GitHub or any other platform complying with takedown requests though.
the stars and forks should be on github to send a message.
cloning and subsequent rehosting should definitely take place on other platforms.
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.
Personally I'd have little interest in Linux if not for it's free software license.