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♻️ Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

｢ Bambu saw a fork of OrcaSlicer that allowed you to use all your printer's features without having to route prints through Bambu's cloud called OrcaSlicer-bambulab and was like, "You know what? No. For the 0.1% of power users who want to run OrcaSlicer without the cloud delivery mechanism like we have in our AGPL-licensed Linux Bambu Studio code... no. You have to use our app, and only our app." ｣
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

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Jeff Geerling

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into Developer mode I deleted Bambu Studio and started using OrcaSlicer I had to do that to keep it under my control, instead of Bambu's.

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Mistake not ...

@zeri@chaos.social · 6 hours ago

@jbz John Locke applies directly, Revolution isn't a right it's a duty.