For labs acquires Micronics

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• recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Founded in 2021, Micronics is the product of recent University of Wisconsin grads who threw themselves into the problem of democratizing access to industrial printing tech.

  unless they go open source, to me this aquisition is a similar but worse situation than IBM and Redhat

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  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Selling out this quick to a company obviously trying to reduce competition, feels like they weren’t all that committed to the cause.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      feels like they weren’t all that committed to the cause.

      They were in a very tough position, their printer was having major quality control issues, I think they probably needed money.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every man has his price at which he’ll abandon any cause. Running a business is hard – It’s a big gamble and full of costs and expenses, you have to warranty the crap you make, source parts, fight with vendors, the whole lot. It’s a pain in the ass. But taking a big cash payout is easy.

      I’ll bet these guys had student loans. And I’ll bet you they don’t anymore.

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• ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disappointing, was looking forward to affordable SLS. Formlabs is just snatching them up because they hate competition.

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great way to stifle competition and keep prices inflated. I’m sure Formlabs’ investors are chuffed.

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Watch the Strange Parts videos, I wouldn’t be too confident about that

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• huginn@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Definitely makes me nervous - not a huge FL fan. But I also see how they make sense as a team.

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