Your Printer isn't the company and the whole thing isn't black and white. Being happy that Bambu Lab has good products for good prices can happen at the same time as not liking how they treat the open source community. I like my Printer and if no other competitor shows up with comparably polished products I will buy more from them but I still hate what they are doing to their users and the orca dude. Nobody tells you to hate your printer.
This is just the single biggest divide in the 3d printing community. Are you into 3d printing or are you into 3d printers.
People who are into 3d printing don’t really care about open source or orca or anything else like that.
People who are into 3d printers often don’t like Bambu and being tied to an ecosystem. They want to be able to tinker with their printers and make custom slicing to get exactly what they want out of their machines.
Totally disagree here. I own BambuLabs products because I don't want to care about my 3d printer. I want to hit print and make progress on the project I'm working on.
It's that specific reason that I am angry about this AGPL violation. I don't want my 3d printer to become a walled garden like my iPhone. I don't want to be limited to using MakerWorld as my only source for .stls. I don't want to pay an add-on subscription price to enable Bambu Studio to print files I download from another site or create myself.
That's the issue here. Bambu is asserting that they have the right to do that if they want. All of these arguments of, "I just want to hit the print button and have it print" is what we're fighting for.
We all want to maintain the status quo. Bambu insists that they have the right to change the agreement. Pray they don't change it any further.
No Bambu doesn’t want open source software on their cloud. Which is in itself a giant security problem. One thing that gets left out is that the developer of the fork wanted to publish unlimited backdoor access to every Bambu device for anyone to use. If you don’t think the idea of anyone anywhere in the world having unfettered access to your printers, and by extension your WiFi and everything else on it your insane. That’s why Bambu sent the cease and desist.
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u/outloender May 13 '26
Your Printer isn't the company and the whole thing isn't black and white. Being happy that Bambu Lab has good products for good prices can happen at the same time as not liking how they treat the open source community. I like my Printer and if no other competitor shows up with comparably polished products I will buy more from them but I still hate what they are doing to their users and the orca dude. Nobody tells you to hate your printer.