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3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Get a $250 printer and start using it. It may be all you'll ever need, but after a year or so it's likely you'll start seeing other printers with different functions that you think would be useful and will decide to upgrade. Hopefully you'll know what you want by then.