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
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.
You can use any filament you want, it works fine on LAN and SD-cards without online account. There was some debate on the fucked up firmware updating thing, but they did backtrack on this, no?
Sure, but your machine is also 3x the price (at least on my country).
That being said, my next printer will also be a prusa, but mostly because it’s a European company. I’m also for Foss 3dp, but I also don’t want to be caught up in misinformation - please enlighten me if there are serious issues actually happening and not just “well Bambu might do so and so in the future”.
yeah they backtracked. They had something TO backtrack.