Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoBesides the others that were mentioned, Prusa is moving away from open source.
Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoBesides the others that were mentioned, Prusa is moving away from open source.
Lutra@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think there’s some semantic confusion with that article. That’s not what I see. There are literally kits for sale on the Prusa Site to convert your old prusa into a new Core. imho, What the ‘RepRap Open Source folks’ mean is literally every part is sourced from already available parts or can be printed. And I think this is where the article is going. The other Open Source -is Open Ecosystem. Where there may be proprietary pieces (the steel cage), but nothing about it is purposefully closed. Prusa published the full electronic and hardware schematics before the machine was shipping. prusa3d.com/…/open-source-at-prusa-research_23681… This is also ‘Open’. Both are good. Both have valid rationale. But neither is anything like closed source, closed box, only we can touch it companies models.
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hard disagree. Prusas used to be completely open source. Now they merely have open source components. It isn’t accurate to call them open source.
Would you call Windows or MacOS open source? Both Microsoft and Apple have made parts of their OS’s open source, but that doesn’t mean the entire product is open source.
Lutra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The link was to the engineering diagrams for their hardware. Literally open.
This would be Microsoft selling ‘Teams’ and including a dvd with the source.