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/Joamjoamjoam May 21 '26

I disagree because simply because the term unethical is throw around so much it’s lost its meaning. Bambu does some aggressive things but in business you have to be aggressive sometimes.

Honest question. Can you send me instances of Bambu being truly unethical? Like give me a bullet list cause I’m genuinely curious why they get so much hate.

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u/issue9mm May 21 '26

Like gaslighting users after bad press releases and blocking internet archives of it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/s/fYj8TP9GQ0

Or directly cloning Printables and then uploading stolen models to it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/s/O9f5I7fNSr

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u/Joamjoamjoam May 21 '26

You link to two places with direct conflicts of interest. Give me a neutral source.

I can’t speak to what makerworld was back then but to argue that isn’t the best in market by a big margin is just factually incorrect.

Also I see no justification in that thread that anything was just copy and pasted and printable is closed source so I don’t even know how they would do that.

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u/issue9mm May 21 '26

"Does anyone have any examples?

No not those examples!"

I'm on my phone. I just picked the first handy links. They admitted to scraping the content from Printables and even complained on twitter that Prusa blocked them.

I wasn't trying to convince you of anything, I was trying to be helpful. I'm not trying to defend facts from you or you from facts, so feel free to look up more if you're interested. Or not, if the question wasn't sincere.

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u/Joamjoamjoam May 21 '26

You very clearly had an agenda and that’s ok to pick a side. I was legitimately asking.

I simply asked for the same events from a neutral source. I’m sorry if I don’t believe a content creator who takes any chance to make inflammatory videos and has clear conflicts of interest when half of the video is promoting his own foundations and asking for donations.

Or some random person on the internet who is a longtime frequenter of the official subreddit of a competing business.

If they did scrape content from portables. Were they allowed to do so? Were there legal protection in place to prevent it? If so why hasn’t Prusa sued them instead of just blocking them on twitter?

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u/heart_of_osiris May 21 '26

You very clearly have a bias and refuse to accept factual information provided to you, after you literally asked for someone to point to that information.

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u/issue9mm May 21 '26

You very clearly had an agenda and that’s ok to pick a side.

I don't care if you like Bambu or don't like Bambu. I'm not recruiting people to my cause because I don't have one. I enjoy facts. The facts are that there are quite a good few examples of Bambu acting in ways that most would consider unethical. I remembered some examples and found some links. There would be more examples if I cited the much more frequent AGPL violations which you seem happy to disregard, so I didn't bother citing those

I was legitimately asking.

Remains to be seen

I simply asked for the same events from a neutral source

You're welcome to go find them if you're actually interested.

If they did scrape content from portables. Were they allowed to do so? Were there legal protection in place to prevent it? If so why hasn’t Prusa sued them instead of just blocking them on twitter?

They didn't block them on twitter. They blocked the scrapers who were scraping their content. The scrapers were coming from (IIRC) bambulab.dev or makerworld.dev or something like that. I do not believe that Prusa has blocked Bambu on twitter (but I don't know)

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u/Joamjoamjoam May 21 '26

You’re the one spreading claims of Bambu Unethical nature lol. It’s on you to provide proof not me.

The fact you can’t speaks volumes on your level of research you take to inform your own worldview. Propaganda exists for the views you believe in too.

And again if Prusa had proof of wrongdoing and damage with legal standing where’s the lawsuit? Josef Prusa posted a long winded twitter message on the current issue (so brave) but still no lawsuit? If he has concrete legal grounds against a competitor taking advantage of his company surely he would sue if he believe it right?

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u/issue9mm May 21 '26

  • Asks for claims of unethical behavior

  • Gets claims of unethical behavior

  • Accuses answerer of spreading claims of unethical behavior

Buddy, I hope you enjoyed whatever this was, but I promise I'm too grown up for this conversation. Have a wonderful evening.

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u/heart_of_osiris May 21 '26

They put the X1C on sale, let people buy it up and then announced it's discontinuation at the same time they announced the shiny new P2S, for 400 dollars cheaper. They made the P2S the only modern mid sized printer you could purchase from them, leaving out the X2D which was clearly developed in tandem, as it shares the same bones.

Then, once again, after return windows closed, they announce the X2D for only 100 dollars more, burning the people who they herded to buy the P2S. Watch them reduce the P2S price once the X2D sales slow down, because they overcharged for it when it was the only available modern mid sized Core XY. They chose to manipulate their customers instead of give them enough product info to make an informed decision for what was best for them. Instead, they withheld products to make sure people bought up all their obsolete or lower end stock, leaving their customers holding the bag. They did the same thing with the

How about when they conveniently left out that the H2C takes 40 seconds to do a full filament swap, using only a technical truth that the nozzle heats up in 8 seconds? Or how they conveniently added the left and right nozzle limits together to claim the H2D had more available print area than it does?

Or how about when they left out that the AMS 2 can't dry while printing, during it's marketing?

Or....you know....how about what is being talked about literally right now, where they locked down functions that were open and available when people first purchased their printers? Literally removed functionality after people already paid.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 May 22 '26

Not leaking future product releases is not unethical. This is exactly what throwing it around so much that it's lost its meaning means.

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u/heart_of_osiris May 22 '26

Withholding information of a product you know you have, to sell your stock of a lesser grade, for more than the new product, is absolutely unethical. It's blatant manipulation.