What has Creality given the community? A desk full of printer designs that never met promise? I’ve got three.
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grue@lemmy.world 1 month agoAnybody who uses regular open-source firmware and doesn’t try to circumvent copyleft, and especially ones who actively give back to the community. Prusa, Creality, Elegoo, etc. Also, DIY/non-commercial projects like Voron.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They haven’t really given anything, but they haven’t tried to take anything away, either. They fall under the clause in my previous comment before the “especially” part.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been a big Elegoo fan for a while now. Love my Centauri Carbon! But even Elegoo is starting to go the enshitefication route, with the new printers no longer being open source.
undefinedValue@programming.dev 1 month ago
I see why you’d conflate this with enshitetification but it’s not that. The printers are actually getting better, but the competition from Chineses brands who steal open source IP including patented innovations, and fraudulently apply for their own patents with the same content and tie up the company in lawsuits to defend their IP.
It has become such a problem that remaining open source is a losing proposition. Joseph Prusa just put out a blog post explaining this and preparing the community for the upcoming changes to the industry.