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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by gchadwick on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:10PM (#36789794)
Are the Chinese companies actually persuing IP claims? What it says about patents is concerning but there's no concrete example of practical issues from it so far.

If a Chinese company simply makes and sells a version of an open source design are they doing anything wrong? This is allowed by the licensing terms.

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by nyolfen on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:18PM (#36789897)
per prusa's comments in the article, they are filing patents based on open source work at scale
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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by eropple on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:04PM (#36791562)
Patents, yes. Deployed patents, not to date.

I have only marginal sympathy for Prusa when they aren't shipping things people want to buy.

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Re:When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Sourc... by Fomite on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:32PM (#36791950)
Bambu has been saber rattling. Ironically, I think it's less aimed at Prusa and more at their own Chinese knock-off competitors.
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