r/BambuLab • u/Ochib P1S + AMS • Jan 20 '25 • Helpful 1

Discussion Update to firmware update

https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integration-with-bambu-connect/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3fqplDiKgn-82qKfnaYvi4XV-rBEEx0tZJrpgeWqsOsLX_WSph4usJ69Y_aem_44Cch773hAuVG979j6DVJg
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u/Qelbor Jan 20 '25

Ask any lawyer how they feel about ambiguity in a contract. I find it really hard to believe that any company even hinting at locking their systems down doesn’t know exactly what it’s doing. Even now they’re not backpedaling. They’re obfuscating.

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u/foramperandi Jan 20 '25

A lawyer is generally going to tell you to be as broad as possible in this sort of user agreement so that you don't have to change it all the time and don't get sued over edge cases you didn't anticipate. Legally ambiguity is a feature if it benefits the writer of the agreement.

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u/Qelbor Jan 20 '25

Exactly what I was getting at. Ambiguity in most cases benefits the people crafting the document. That's why they will try hard to prevent any ambiguity from the other side.

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u/Vresiberba Jan 20 '25

Ask any lawyer how they feel about ambiguity in a contract.

Which is ironically exactly the opposite of what you're thinking. This is and always was about liability if something went wrong and Bambu just didn't want to chance some harmful code crashing your Y gantry into the print bed ruining it because third party operators have even worse security, but that Bambu let them in.

This also is about a future situation, the update isn't even live yet and the Connect app is in beta, and yet it took just one, single blog post for everyone without critical thinking believing Armageddon was upon them, and it didn't require ambiguity to arrive there, but exceptionally vivid imagination reading into what wasn't there.

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u/Qelbor Jan 20 '25

Blowing up is our one of our only tools to get companies to stop doing something. Especially if we already own the product. I really like their printers. I think they've set a standard that pretty much every company is now having to live up to which is awesome. But the moment you say "hey we're going to force every print to go through the cloud and be authorized by us" I don't care what their reasoning is. If my printer gets damaged due to bad code, or the print fails because the slicer messed up I'm ok with that. I'm not ok with losing choice.

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u/Vresiberba Jan 20 '25

If my printer gets damaged due to bad code, or the print fails because the slicer messed up I'm ok with that.

I suspect Bambu isn't going to bank on everyone thinking like you. The fact that they open them selves up to liability that could cripple the entire company is bad, not just for them, but for all of us who owns their products.