Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer
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Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive.
  • acutfjg@feddit.nlEnglish
    211·
    4 months ago

    Taunts? More like following protocol someone else is trying to illegally exploit

    • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      No, he does pretty explicitly taunt them.

      if you think you can do better than Apple, Google, Cisco, IBM, John Deere, and the entire medical industry, well, be my guest. You can try but I don’t think it’s going to end very well for you. And here’s a message I have for Bambu Labs, if you so much as send me a postcard, here’s what I’m going to do to you. Number one, I’m going to hire the best lawyers to destroy your entire section 121 claim. We will make you look so bad that this will be part of the precedent that we use for reforming this law in the United States of America. Number two, AGPL violations…

      Whatever amount of money you cost me, I will ensure that I cost you a minimum of 5 to 20 times that in legal fees. I am that confident in the fact that your case is garbage. So do your best. Try to take down my github repo. Send me a cease and desist. I look forward to your notice.

      if the legal team at Bambu Lab is watching this, make my day. I’ll have fun with this one.

      • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Rossmann is just posturing for his fans.

        He ain’t got the kind of money it takes for this kind of fight. Prusa looked into to filing a possible court case. And they decided this is a fight they can’t afford and can’t win. Because it’s not only Bambu’s lawyers, but the Chinese government’s money they have. And remember, the Chinese government holds a stake in Bambu. And Prusa can afford a lot better lawyers than Rossmann can.

        • eltoukan@jlai.luEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Even if he doesn’t have the money for court, the noise generated by all this might drive customers away?

          • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            It might. But I don’t think there has been much of a cooling for Bambu’s market share. There are plenty of fanbois and their marketing IS effective for first time buyers.

        • scoobydoo27@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          No Prusa decided not to pursue it because it’s software related and very hard to enforce. They can spend the money and nothing will change.

  • prenatal_confusion@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Does somebody know more about the part where Bambu claims that orca is ‘hacking’ their cloud? How? By using the API? By actually breaking something?

    • FleetingTit@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      As far as I understand it some guy created an OrcaSlicer fork that uses the same application identifier as BambuStudio when sending stuff to their cloud services. The identifier is available in their open source code.

      It just seems like bad security architecture which would need to be fixed, but they instead try bully their way out of it.

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      OrcaSlicer is a fork of Bambu Slicer (which is a fork of Prusa Slicer, and that’s a fork of Slic3r). The former is using the same (GPL licensed, mind you) code that Bambu Slicer uses to access their cloud service. There’s no foul play here by the Orca devs, it’s just Bambu blaming their security issues on a small community project. Very much against the ethos of open-source, picking on smaller members of the community is very much not nice.