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What projects does the opensource world lack (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[-] hera@feddit.uk 20 points 4 months ago

A printer or printer firmware. There was a discussion about this elsewhere on lemmy, of course this would be difficult and expensive but it would be very cool

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Some of the OLD HP Thinkjet printers were pretty rudimentary; the original Thinkjet cartridges are still widely manufactured for certain industrial applications. Tell me we couldn't reprap that shit.

[-] droplet6585@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

A reprap style project could probably make a passable document printer- but what's the appeal? People only work on those projects to make new or previously unobtainable machines available.

I just don't think it'd be worth the effort.