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by drewdevault 3y ago
I haven't 180'd anything. The throughline is the same: they have more than enough money and they had many opportunities to use it effectively, but the tied their ankles together with their infinite-growth business model.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Elastic's losses are a classic story of VC-funded promises of infinite, unsustainable growth. Success for Elastic is defined by the classic impossible measure of becoming a monopoloy so you can raise prices every year and cite growth i
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Yes, it's a gamble. But having exactly one 3D printer model at a high price point and doing nothing else is also a gamble, and a much stupider one. Western manufacturing is at odds with China for the reasons you stated, but free softwa
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Yes, quite likely. This is not really a matter of FOSS or not, but it is something that Prusa absolutely needed to have foreseen and made a viable business plan to address. Chinese manufacturing was always a huge vulnerability in their busi
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Elastic's revenue was north of half a billion dollars when they changed their license. Amazon was most decidedly not killing them. It was motivated by greed, like it always is.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Sorry, Armin, but this is such nonsense. Do you really think that Prusa going with non-free firmware is going to dissuade Bambu from undercutting them? The point isn't the firmware is free or non-free, hell, 3D printer firmware is rath
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by drewdevault 3y ago
>From his past comments, the author doesn't have much respect for women in general Exhibit A: https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/29/The-forbidden-topics.html Given the hyperfocus on the mention of trans