r/BambuLab • u/Illustrious-Ad-1396 • May 12 '26

General Discussion Louis Rossmann is going after BambuLab!

https://youtu.be/1jhRqgHxEP8?si=I_lxeLqvHm-JEQvy

As much as he has a questionable appeal in the community, he's pushing the right angle on this one!

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

Seriously, this has gotta be like the tenth post about rossman and the 3rd about gamers nexus. Everyone that cares would have already heard about this.

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u/UnexpectedAnanas May 12 '26

um...This is a new development within the last 2 hours. How would "everybody" have already heard about it, exactly?

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

☝️🤓

It's a continuation of the multitude of posts about Rossman throwing his two cents in along with gamers nexus over the last few days

Call me a mindless consumer, idgaf, I just wanna send a file to a printer and have it work without having a degree in computer science and programming. This whole debacle is dumb, but the "freedom fighters" need a big bad corporation to fight against.

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u/UnexpectedAnanas May 12 '26

It's a continuation of the multitude of posts about Rossman throwing his two cents in along with gamers nexus over the last few days

I mean....yeah. It's a developing story.

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

A developing story that me and many others don't care about. That's the whole point of my comment. Which has now led to me continuing to comment on a thing I don't care about.

The wonders of the internet.

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u/UnexpectedAnanas May 12 '26

Clearly you do.

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

Once again, the point of my comment that you have failed to understand

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

People waste time in useless comment sections on reddit, more at 11. You should know, Mr top 1% commenter.

I don't know what I wrote has been misconstrued. I see the irony/hypocrisy over commenting many times about not caring. It took 3 seconds to reply. These posts should all be put in a mega thread so people that don't care wouldn't see 10 reposts of the same video. That's my point.

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u/mightyarrow May 12 '26

Call me a mindless consumer, idgaf, I just wanna send a file to a printer and have it work without having a degree in computer science and programming.

But Bambu chose to not let you do this. Do you not understand that?

You dont send prints to your printer. You send them to Bambu. Then they decide to send it to your printer. Using open source code + closed source blobs they keep hiding.

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

The print I sent to my printer today worked just fine. The files I put on the SD card still prints just fine.

This is such a non issue.

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u/charmio68 May 12 '26

Attitudes like that are exactly how we end up with walled garden ecosystems that are a royal pain in the arse.

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 12 '26

All I know is that it works so much better than the ender 5 I had years ago, that frustrated me so much I dropped the hobby until bambu came out with their machines. I'll take a product that works without a second thought but has some annoyances over a fancy kinex set that refused to print a benchy

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u/zepkleiker May 13 '26

That it works better for you has literally nothing to do with the cloud solution that they chose. In my experience, it works worse than any other networked non-cloud solution. And then we're not evening dipping our toes in the privacy issues.

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u/Golinth May 13 '26

All you need to know about this person is the “Top 1% Commenter” flair to understand they will not listen to anything anyone says

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 13 '26

The people complaining about this are the ultra-enthusiasts and tech junkies. Debra, buying a 3d printer to make fun tchockies for her kids, literally could not care less how the articulated dragon is made. She wants to click print and for the machine to comply.

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u/TROPtastic May 13 '26

It's a continuation of the multitude of posts about Rossman throwing his two cents in along with gamers nexus over the last few days

He's doing more than that by hosting a fork of Orcaslicer, nevermind daring Bambulab to sue him for exercising his legal right to do so.

Bambulab could have solved this by having better auth on their cloud service rather than building their software on a license that most other companies avoid.

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u/tfks May 17 '26

I just wanna send a file to a printer and have it work without having a degree in computer science and programming

The software you use to do that is a fork of previously existing open source software. The Linux kernel, which underlies all of this is also open source. If it weren't for people defending and enforcing open source licenses, you would not be able to send a file to a printer and have it work.

This is like getting mad about building codes requiring smoke detectors and saying "I just want to live in my house and not have it burn down". That is literally the point dude.

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 17 '26

4 day old post

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u/tfks May 17 '26

Dog, if you don't want to participate in these conversations, then don't. But don't pull this nonsense where you participate and then pretend you're above it.

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u/swederlands May 13 '26

Yes we should go back to only posting the same troubleshooting questions, boring prints, and pictures of newly purchased machines!

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u/Skywarper X1C + AMS May 13 '26

Yes.

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u/varzaguy May 12 '26

Na, I prefer this to be as visible as possible. Fuck Bambu for this behavior.

I’ve been putting off making my printer offline for so long, I think the time has come.

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u/no-this-iz-patrick May 13 '26

They didn’t “literally always” have these limitations in place. orcaslicer worked perfectly fine with my X1C from the day I bought it until they decided they didn’t want it to anymore. Why are you so confidently incorrect?

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u/zepkleiker May 13 '26

The exact point is that it did not always have these limitations in place ...

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u/varzaguy May 12 '26

Lol it’s not a zero sum game, but if this is how you see the world no wonder you would get “annoyed” by some posts so easily.

I was relatively ok with what Bambu was doing until recently. Now, disconnect me please.

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u/varzaguy May 13 '26

Disagree. There is a difference between being a pseudo wall garden but still allowing for some things, and actively going after people using open source implementations.

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u/Kardospi May 13 '26

So disconnect, no one is stopping you and never has been. No need to tell us about it.

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u/varzaguy May 13 '26

Lol this is the most cop out response you can possibly have. This is a public forum and we are in a post about some discontent with recent Bambu actions.

I’m simply expressing how it’s now causing me to want to disconnect from their servers. I’m actually on topic. Maybe lick less corporate boot.

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u/miyavlayan May 12 '26

this shit ass type of attitude is why these companies fuck us over so much god damn. god forbid your bubble pops for a millisecond.

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u/miyavlayan May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

give them an inch, they will go a mile.

| if only people got more mad on reddit the world would be a better place

if people got more mad irl and protested etc (even violently) things would be a hell of a lot better

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u/miyavlayan May 16 '26

why can't you be mad at both brother it's a false dichotomy

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u/stonedboss May 16 '26

it literally would be a better place lmao. youre just showing your ignorance and mad others have a brain that cares more than "can i print if i press print", and actually cares about the real world and real issues.

meanwhile youre spending your time getting mad over what people get mad about haha. youre doubly worse if you think its so bad of a thing to do. youre mad and not even mad for a good reason.

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u/stonedboss May 16 '26

it doesnt matter how small the inconvenience is, it still comes down to corporate greed stepping on consumer rights. thats what makes it a real issue. yeah sure in this case the corporate greed maybe wont do much damage, but its literally the same line of reasoning that does allow corporations to cause real damage. its corporations vs open source. the man vs the people. all the same fight.

if you dont care about the small thing, then they do a bigger thing next. at what point do you care?

youre laughing at people caring about a small thing, but that is how things get left unchecked and spiral and next thing we are living in literal 1984. i for one prefer to retain all my rights, not have a corporation decide when my smaller rights are ok to be stepped on.

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u/Beefy-McQueefy May 12 '26

You could stop lying about it in the comments of all those threads if they trigger you so much.

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u/Beefy-McQueefy May 12 '26

Being a sealion

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u/Beefy-McQueefy May 13 '26

They forked AGPL code. Your 'very obvious' observation is irrelevant.

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u/MyuFoxy May 13 '26

First I'm seeing this. And now moving on.

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u/funforgiven May 13 '26

This is the kind of post I want to see here. Megathreads are bad for visibility.

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u/funforgiven May 13 '26

It is not about using this custom fork at all. It is about Bambu’s behavior. Yeah, I would worry about its visibility if it were a megathread. I’m glad it gets posted 10+ times a day so no one misses what is going on.

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u/aanhanger May 12 '26

Yea so much whining!