cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1823177/3d-printer-reviewers-being-honest-in-this-industry-will-put-you-out-of-a-job
This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won’t send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations.
tl;dr Anycubic uses open-source software for their firmware, but doesn’t make it public as per license agreement, and they don’t seem to be friendly to anyone who calls this out.
More info: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMpZTkXqFo0H6pDwhZpdYqMYvLhPvWA5?lc=UgxA-4LYvwrnonXuXsZ4AaABAg
I have Bambu lab A1 now. Have had ultimaker and various creality printers. Bambu lab is by far the best in terms of print quality, ease of use, reliance and speed. Isn’t this the real reason why it has become popular and not them pressuring reviewers to only do good reviews?
What drama or problems is there with Bambu?
Most of the Chinese brands are doing that; I’ve seen 3D printing youtubers talk about Bambu, Creality and Elegoo leaning on them for good reviews as if they’re employed on their marketing team rather than independent journalists.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff about their platform hosting stolen models.
Bambu tipped their hand a little over a year ago, they have every intention to lock down their platform, requiring their filament, their software and likely their cloud platform to run.
And I’ll pit my Prusa MK4S against your Bambu A1 in print quality any time.
It’s DRM’d bullshit that gives a big fat 🖕to the entire open and collaborative spirit of 3D printing. The hobby was built on open source and open hardware (see e.g. RepRap) and Bambu is trying to destroy that.
I don’t give a fuck how good the print quality and whatnot is; It could give you a handjob with every print and it would still be completely categorically unacceptable!
Agree! Will have to look into what the DRM and Bambu thing is about. I built my first MakerBot waaay back at uni so I get and support the idea of the free and open 3d printing community