Comment on What 3D printer should I buy?
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Prusa is what i would call partly open source these days, the article you link is up to date. But they’re behind the curve at the moment playing catchup with much cheaper printers. This is in part because they insist on their own proprietary firmware instead of working with the massive klipper community which IMO is driving bleeding edge of consumer 3D printing right now, and what almost all their competitors are also using (in some variation).
anguo@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t call their firmware proprietary, it’s open source and based on marlin.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Perhaps proprietary is not the correct word then, but it is exclusively in-house developed by themselves AFAIK. My point is, they insist on reinventing the wheel every time they want to catch up to their competitors because of this, instead of just working together with the open source community.