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Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract by techknight on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:24PM (#48111354)
There are many valid criticisms one can make about Bambu Lab, but the constant overreactions to everything they do is so tiring. Somebody at their company saw a fork with their own company name on it, impersonating their own client auth code, and sent a C&D.

The receiver of the C&D should see a lawyer about what changes or user-facing messages might get Bambu to back off. This is a normal, solvable business disagreement, not an excuse for everyone to get their pitchforks out again.

Also: I run multiple Bambu printers offline and they all work fine via sneakernet without anyone's files going anywhere. People should stop acting like these devices are bricks when used without internet access.

Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract by guax on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:01PM (#48115715)
> Somebody at their company saw a fork with their own company name on it, impersonating their own client auth code, and sent a C&D.

I would doubt this is the case, Orca Slicer exists since 2022 and is very popular. This is not a "somebody just noticed a thing" situation.

Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract by 4ggr0 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:43AM (#48120640)
> The receiver of the C&D should see a lawyer

yeah, just get a lawyer! not like that's an expensive thing to do as an individual, private, open-source dev, at the risk of being stuck in a legal dispute versus a corporation with deep(er) pockets.