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This is an attempt sneak DRM into an industry full of passionate and knowledgeable buyers. Bad move.

• djmips 5y ago
  Reading the entire thread from the posted link, it appears they will open source the bootloader.
• 95014_refugee 5y ago
  No, this is just the usual torches-and-pitchforks crowd.
  • mistrial9 5y ago
    business of all sizes, and government and all their cohort, routinely ignore FOSS license in all parts of the world. Even if ninety percent of those are compliant, its a big, big world. Why mock people who stand up for this situation on the part of FOSS ?
    • jefftk 5y ago
      > Why mock people who stand up for this situation on the part of FOSS? In this case, because they are wrong and the GPL does not say what they think it says.
• oneplane 5y ago
  No it's not. They have a known-good path you can deviate off of that allows you to run whatever you want with no restrictions. Everything still works, but the only thing is that since you can now do things that they might not have thought of, they are not going to be responsible for the side-effects that might have. Essentially, it's an irreversible switch which allows you to run firmware that is not signed by their private key, which makes it a end-user choice: you can be in a safe and protected world, or you can be in a free do-what-you-want world; all you have to do is choose.
  • xf1cf 5y ago
    This would be a nice to have with the crealitys. You can flash the board with custom firmware, you can make small surface level modifications to the LCD, but you cannot access the full LCD firmware. For some reason they made the board firmware open but the LCD firmware closed. Unlike what Prusa did, creality seems actively hostile.