A developer shared a method to remotely control Bambu printers without using Bambu software. Bambu privately asked him to delete his code and attempted to lock down its system despite relying on open-source components. Consumer rights advocates, makers, and open-source advocates responded with public funding pledges to support legal defense and to oppose Bambu. Others halted planned purchases and encouraged community action. The Software Freedom Conservancy began hosting a reverse-engineering project and positioned itself as a watchdog. Multiple advocates also forked the suppressed code, daring legal action and framing Bambu as harmful to open-source freedoms and third-party interoperability.
"Jarczak is a developer who shared a way to let people remote control their Bambu printers without using Bambu software. But Bambu wanted to lock down its system, despite relying on open-source code. That provoked a furious coalition of open-source advocates and YouTubers to respond."
"" I'll put up $10,000 to teach bambu labs a lesson," declared consumer rights advocate Louis Rossmann, pledging to help defend Jarczak in court. " I'm never buying a Bambu Lab 3D printer again," stated maker Jeff Geerling, adding that he'd gladly chip in too. (He's changed the YouTube title since.) " Go fuck yourself, Bambu," wrote GamersNexus, pledging to commit $10,000 as well."
"If that wasn't enough, Rossmann, Burke, and thousands of other open-source advocates are daring Bambu to take legal action - they're each forking the code Bambu was hoping to suppress. As of Monday, so is the Software Freedom Conservancy, which is now hosting an entire project to reverse engineer Bambu's code and says it will serve as a Bambu watchdog."
""They're bad actors, straight-up, and the community should do whatever we can," said Bradley Kühn, father of the AGPL open-source license and policy fellow at the Software Freedom Conservancy."
Read at The Verge
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]