Next time they will choose MIT… and close everything

No.

Bambu Studio is forked from PrusaSlicer, licensed under the AGPL.

PrusaSlicer is a fork of Slic3r, also licensed under the AGPL.

Next time the company will write their own code and not steal it from the community, or they'll comply with the licence under which they're building their business.

What's particularly troubling is that this is not the first time that Bambu Labs has done this.

Yeah, it kinda feels like bambu has been pushing the envelope of what bs they can get away with for a hot minute, there's kinda always been discussion of whether their behavior is a thing consumers and tinkerers should accept. Guess that's finally catching up to them

The problem is that Bambu has shown that writing software isn't their biggest strength. The slicer works decently enough because it's all other people's code in the back.

I wouldn't put it past them to try and create something with AI. Question is whether the AI would simply re-use the code for prusca, which would (again) land them in hot water.

Grateful the SFC has got users' backs!

This is the first time in far too long that it feels like there's an org willing and able to throw down to back the individuals against the corpos.

I know there are others, but it often amounts to fighting in court which, while valuable, feels more removed, slower, and doesn't have the same immediate, tangible feeling of support like "We're setting up a repo to reverse engineer your corpo shit and we're even going to make it better. Bring it."

#feelsgoodman