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Except that the software part of the "significantly ahead" is in the device firmware, not the slicer. And it's only the slicer that's at issue in this debate. I

Except that the software part of the "significantly ahead" is in the device firmware, not the slicer. And it's only the slicer that's at issue in this debate. If it were the slicer that provided all this advantage over the competition it'd have been copied years ago, so this is really nothing to do with my point at all. Again, I'd be far happier if they followed the terms of the AGPL and provided source for their custom slicing extensions, but it wouldn't really move the needle very much for the competition.

ChuckMcM 1mo ago
You realize that the slicer has to talk to the firmware, and it is documenting the commands their firmware implements which makes the combination of slicer + firmware print right? The whole point of the AGPL on the slicer was to prevent people from having special sauce printer firmware, get all the work of the slicer for "free" and then make their combination better than everyone else's. So you publish the code the slicer uses to talk to your device and that lets someone else implement the same codes (if they choose too).