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Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract by kiba on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:14PM (#48116706)
Share what? Nothing what Bambu is doing is remotely secret. There are no mystery sauce to figure out. Prusa genuinely got outflanked by Bambu when it comes to designing a printer.

But yes, fuck bambu.

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Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract by SchemaLoad on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:59PM (#48117641)
They forked the slicer, and then put the networking part in a plugin that gets downloaded after you open it purely so they don't have to share the source for it as the rest of the slicer is GPL.
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