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It will be interesting to see the uptake of the program given the many claims for where Makerbot has taken community designs and applied for patents. Last artic
by philipcristiano 12y ago
It will be interesting to see the uptake of the program given the many claims for where Makerbot has taken community designs and applied for patents. Last article I remembering seeing was quite recent (http://traverseda.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/makerbot-blatently-steals-and-patents-a-community-design/ http://traverseda.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/makerbot-blatentl...)
- BeccaCory 12y agoThis article does a great job of laying out the actual situation: http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-mak.html http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/whats-the-story-with-the-ma...
- philipcristiano 12y agoThanks for that link! Definitely a case (for me) where the news around the original outrage reached more than the truth.
- Splendor 12y agoI still find it very strange that comments were so hard to make on that story. It seems almost like Boing Boing wasn't interested in a normal discussion.
- citrik 12y agoThis article causes me to question my trust in BoingBoing and Cory Doctorow. The extruder is not the only open source component Makerbot is trying to patent, here's another one http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014/5/22/stay-classy-makerbot http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014/5/22/stay-classy-makerb... Seems the open spirit of Makerbot has been run aground by their new corporate owner.