> None of the opportunities that Prusa missed called for them to compromise on open source. Not a single one. I made a distinction of FLOSS, not just "open sou

> None of the opportunities that Prusa missed called for them to compromise on open source. Not a single one. I made a distinction of FLOSS, not just "open source". There's a massive distinction between them. And now, they're going closed source. (Or technically, they have been as long as they have DRM signed firmware.) And Prusa started to go way off course with the required vandalization and warranty removal with "custom firmware". https://help.prusa3d.com/article/flashing-custom-firmware-mini_14 https://help.prusa3d.com/article/flashing-custom-firmware-mi... > Especially when you make that 10% open: someone else is going to repurpose it, do the other 90%, and eat your lunch. Which is why setting up moats is absolutely required with "open source" stuff, or stuff you plunder from open source. Which is why Bambu did cloud-shit with things like stl storage and slicing. Prusa is doing the requisite dev work for everyone else. They too need a moat, lest they die. Which is the point of the article (them struggling).