That's one way to encourage people to develop a complete replacement firmware, I suppose. They also sued the third-party design software Sure Cuts-A-Lot and Ma

That's one way to encourage people to develop a complete replacement firmware, I suppose. They also sued the third-party design software Sure Cuts-A-Lot and MakeTheCut into not supporting their cutters anymore. I have a license to the old version of SCAL which IMHO is the only way to do anything useful with a cricut. (The irony is that Cricut gave one of their machines to our hackerspace, perhaps in the hope that we'd immediately spend our entire annual budget on a couple of design cartridges? Nah, instead I spent the price of one cartridge on some third-party software to make the machine into a generic SVG cutter.) As far as I'm concerned, Cricut was a strong "do not buy" from the moment they filed those lawsuits, but now they've taken the coveted "worse than makerbot" scum prize.