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Gee, thanks, Bre. Again, why do you think that's true? How did you come to that conclusion? What do you know that those of us still in the "fantasy worl
by argonaut 12y ago
Gee, thanks, Bre. Again, why do you think that's true?
How did you come to that conclusion?
What do you know that those of us still in the "fantasy world" don't know?
Aha, that's it!
MakerBot fell victim to the Osborne effect, where talking openly about future products hurt the sale of their current products.
Sales dropped, so they got scared and went closed.
That sounds like a way more honest and real answer than the non-existence of an open source steel bender.
Commenting on the tone alone, this strikes me as the logic of someone who has already arrived at a conclusion (the MakerBot founders are concealing the real reason behind their abandonment of open-source), and is merely searching for evidence to back up a conclusion they've already arrived at.
- gaius 12y agoAgreed; this is a hit piece.
- monochromatic 12y agoMy thoughts exactly. If the statements about open source hardware don't fit your worldview, just deride them and make up some other explanation!
- hugs 12y agoI didn't deride his statements because they didn't fit my worldview, I derided them for making no sense. He was the one that kept coming up with new explanations. His latest (which I quote in the post) is other-wise known as the Osborne effect.
- monochromatic 12y agoOk. But you blew off the main justification he gave for no sensible reason I can see. You just didn't like it, so you found some other explanation.
- msabalau 12y agoThe author may have a dog in this fight, but it would be incorrect to claim they have a beef with MakerBot's founders, given that Zach “Hoeken” Smith, one of the founders, has been openly critical of the move to closed source, and also was forced out of the company.