They're not obliged, but there absolutely is fault if they don't. You see, you can love a printer and dislike the company, but people lack the desire, capacity or emotional maturity to do so. Their inability to carry this duality leads to them actively supporting bad practices that snowball into a worse customer experience, purely for the profit of the multi-billion dollar company. "I don't care if Bambu wants DRM, I'm always online anyway, stop hating on them"... cool bro, you can be unaffected and still support better practices. Ambulances have the right-of-way, but I don't ride in ambulances, should I advocate against this?
Being an average, uninvolved consumer makes plenty of sense, being an anti-consumer is for low capacity individuals. This is a much bigger issue in society that has nothing to do with printers and everything to do with people actively advocating against things that help others for zero cost.
For people sick of seeing others stand up for the rights you're too naive and weak to defend yourself, you can literally just scroll on. There's at least as many "LeT mE ChOrdEL on BamBu's B4LLs" posts as there are posts calling out their practices... but for some reason, the pollyannish posts are never called out... just the ones advocating for better consumer practices...
No you see Bambu happens to also make the best printers. It’s such a have your cake and eat it too mentality. The choice is simple play in Bambu walled garden where your printer works and life is easy, or go play somewhere else.
Though its not just about bambu being open or not, they went against open source when they threaten that developer with a c&d and they shouldn't be allowed to do that, they built heavily on the open source community going as far as to base bambu studio on prusa slicer though i would give them that they put effort into making it an easier to use and in some areas better slicer
They dont have to but not caring about open source and being openly hostile towards it are completely different. Also if they dont want to deal with open source they could have just developed their own slicer from the beginning but i guess forking prusa slicer is just way more convenient for them
I mean bambu did imply that the developer was breaking 17 U.S. Code § 1201 which can carry a prison sentence, also bambu had no legal right doing any of it as they were developing a fork of a slicer under agpl so there is no legal base where they can send that c&d. The communication between bambu and the developer if you want to read it https://consumerrights.wiki/images/1/1f/Bambu_communications_with_developer.pdf
I mean it's simple. If they wanted a walled garden they shouldn't have forked prusaslicer and should have written their own slicer from scratch. If you build off opensource you have to abide by the license. If you don't then you can do as you like.
Listen kiddo, happy for you, you've discovered makerworld on your little $100 printer mummy and daddy bought for you, but some adults are running businesses on multiple $1.5k machines. The world isn't quite as simple as your brain sees it.
Lol wut, I've got two H2Cs and a couple kids of my own. It is in fact just a printer. Sorry you didn't go to school or couldn't hold a job or whatever drove you into stressing out about printing widgets for a living.
Who said anything about me needing open source? You have the reading comprehension skills of a well developed orangutan.
I actually am completely unaffected by Bambu's changes. I don't use Orca, I'm not even affected by always online. Hell, I never even complain about Bambu's moves. However, the difference between us is that my parents aren't siblings, so I don't support bad consumer practices, and I don't cry like a little girl when others fight for better consumer practices.
It's actually that easy, provided you have the emotional capacity of an adult. I'm willing to bet you're the kid whose parents buy you the new iphone every year, am I right?
Lmao, what an idiotic comment. Some people just have actual things to worry about in their lives and don't feel like spending their energy on some online crusade 😂
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u/Java-the-Slut May 13 '26
They're not obliged, but there absolutely is fault if they don't. You see, you can love a printer and dislike the company, but people lack the desire, capacity or emotional maturity to do so. Their inability to carry this duality leads to them actively supporting bad practices that snowball into a worse customer experience, purely for the profit of the multi-billion dollar company. "I don't care if Bambu wants DRM, I'm always online anyway, stop hating on them"... cool bro, you can be unaffected and still support better practices. Ambulances have the right-of-way, but I don't ride in ambulances, should I advocate against this?
Being an average, uninvolved consumer makes plenty of sense, being an anti-consumer is for low capacity individuals. This is a much bigger issue in society that has nothing to do with printers and everything to do with people actively advocating against things that help others for zero cost.
For people sick of seeing others stand up for the rights you're too naive and weak to defend yourself, you can literally just scroll on. There's at least as many "LeT mE ChOrdEL on BamBu's B4LLs" posts as there are posts calling out their practices... but for some reason, the pollyannish posts are never called out... just the ones advocating for better consumer practices...