RobotToaster

Persecutors have the monopoly on getting people charged with crimes.

I had to look this up and I'm surprised that in most states private prosecution is barred. In the UK it's still legal, if expensive and uncommon.

I'll never be able to look at Yoda the same way.

I use unscented deodorant so I can wear (mens) perfume.

It could just be providing hardware I suppose.

It's hard to fault their logic.

from their own page

Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for all of its files, including electronics and mechanical design files, firmware code, and the bill of materials.

It states the code and files will be CC-NC licensed, which isn't open source.

legally

Therein lies the other issue, unless the creator has millions of dollars to fund lawsuits, if a large company or Chinese company decides to clone it he can do nothing. The only people who will respect the license are individuals and small businesses.

Also means that a robust community of people creating businesses to sell variations of the hardware for those who aren’t as maker friendly cannot emerge, correct?

Correct, that's just one of the problems with NC licenses.

Despite the clickbait headline this isn't open source

Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

The NC license isn't open source, it violates point six of the OSD

“Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn’t be issued (our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”),” reads the post.

Did nobody think to just write "waymo" and use the company HQ as the driver's address?

This is one of the reasons Gnosticism exists. In the gnostic interpretation the God of the old testament was the demiurge, while the snake is identified with God or Jesus.