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3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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This is the emails between the YouTuber YGK3D and Anycubic, it seems like they won't send 3D printers to reviewers who mention their GPL3 license violations.

tl;dr Anycubic uses open-source software for their firmware, but doesn't make it public as per license agreement, and they don't seem to be friendly to anyone who calls this out.

More info: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxIMpZTkXqFo0H6pDwhZpdYqMYvLhPvWA5?lc=UgxA-4LYvwrnonXuXsZ4AaABAg

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[-] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago

A lawyer should call this out, usually they care about that. I guess if they couldn't sold their products in the US it would hurt them, I see they are Chinese, and it's not unheard of if a Chinese company just ignores western IP and copyright laws.

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It would be great if the EU and US blocked the sale of products that violate Open-Source liscences.

Should solve the problem fairly quickly

[-] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Consumer protection? In America?

Pull the other one!

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just need to phrase it as "China is stealing our open-source software and profiting from it" and they might be onboard with blocking them.

Wouldn't even be lying.

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