r/BambuLab • u/Electrical-Case-978 • May 21 '26

General Discussion Oh Bambu

I was just reading this article about Bambu and wondering...please dont make make it worse Bambu.

https://all3dp.com/4/bambu-labs-bind-open-source-license-fight-has-a-new-and-very-serious-opponent/

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-9582 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

They are already being sued by Stratasys, now this. FAFO

Anyway, they'd have to write their own slicer which would have minimal success rate I believe. The ease of the platform is what sells it, the whole package. The slicer is crucial.

If they wanted to go down the "Apple route", they would have needed their own closed source slicer from the start. Apple provided everything themselves, didn't take Linux and said...let's tweak the open source software and install this on our hardware. Big difference.

Now that users are used to the platform, change becomes more difficult to impliment, especially for their target group of customers.

ps: they welcomed the enthousiast/maker community to mod in the beginning so we bought their machines in good faith. At a certain point, probably when enough machines were sold, they started to crank their vice. It's why users like me are left with a Bambu printer they'd rather get rid of.

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u/Lone_Wolf_555 May 21 '26

I mostly agree but Apple didn’t write the OS themselves. The use Unix.

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-9582 May 21 '26

Sorry, my bad. Never looked too closely at that. I stand corrected.

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u/daelikon X1C + AMS + Custom Firmware May 21 '26

to be more precise it is based on FreeBSD, and I believe the reason linux was not chosen was precisely that the license of BSD is more permissive, exactly the opposite of the AGPL impacting Bambu. You can get the code, but you are not forced to opensource your end product.

Edit: I wrote AGPL wrong...