Why can't open source compete with closed one in general
Because other economies can produce your design cheaper and sideline you
>>106469966Aren't Bambu lab printers based on Voron instead of Prusa?
Bambu Labs won, Apple essentially won again lmao. Jeets on suicide watch.
>>106469966Free trade until you can't compete
>>106469966>shitskin corporation declares open hardware thing deadwho would have expected.
>>106469966These companies jumped on the open source bandwagon to please investors and draw talent. When the CEO realized that open source meant everyone, they panicked. If your company is grifting on a few open source designs for a while and suddenly others find out how to put them into production with marketing, then you're too slow. Open source rewards the rapid prototypes, you have to keep on pushing the boundaries and innovating faster than your competition can copy them.Open source has terrible marketing and closed source software will likely win in that aspect. People would rather pay for convenience than get the free option you pay with sweat equity. Even with ChatGPT, people don't want to sweat it at all and still would rather pay than having to troubleshoot why their Wifi isn't working.
>>106469986have yet to see anyone copy's latest garbage designs.
>>106469966Bambu paid for marketing, and released a robust first product that had learned from all the mistakes of previous models. People saw the marketing, bought it, and having never used another printer, will probably never buy anything else, because it’s tard-safe and they don’t care about tweaking it. Conversely, Bambu immediately had all its gimmicks stolen and recreated, and now they’re behind the curve on multi-head designs because they’re trying to keep their AMS thing useful. The laser-cutter printer they made was a joke and a stupid idea that never should’ve left planning.Ultimately, they have nothing hardware wise that other printer manufacturers can’t clone, what they do have is a very competent team of marketers (i.e. they pay YouTubers to shill it to normies, and send free printers to maker types that don’t already have one, so their printers show up fucking everywhere, and the people using them, who’ve only used those printers, and have heard of the tales of printers of old you had to manually level, go “Oh! its so easy to use, you just click a button and it goes!”, as if most modern printers can’t do the same.It’s all marketing
>>106470078It was also because lots of the big players in the industrial sector had patents on many key technologies so the companies in the consumer space tried using FOSS as a wedge against those patents. Failing that, it gave them a moral flavor to their explanations for why they weren't doing certain improvements.
>>106469986So you tariff that other economy. What's the problem?
>>106469966how about those scammers stop pushing for retarded plastic and get some real material like metal or ceramic? Why are we still printing fucking plastic a decade after 3d printing got popular.
>>106471564What if it results in a 2 day disappearance, swelling of hands, unstable gait, and loss of hair?
Because people with skills eventually realize the market his huge and they're doing all of the heavy lifting and actually want to be compensated for being so much better than everyone else.
>>106472041golfing can do that to you
>>106469966Most software we run is in fact open source so your assumption is false.
>>106470078foss and open source are not the same
>>106470003It's a coreXY but the overall design is based on the idea on mass production.>>106470150Bambu made a decent printer that was produceable at scale.To pretend that there was anything else going on besides the utter failure of open-source to materialize such a thing is an utter delusion.It's now understood that the bearded fuck Prusa was quite instrumental in holding the tech back with his "home user" philosophy that sees no one print faster than an Mk3 and that PETG is the most hard-core material you're allowed.
>>106469966i suspect prusa's failure stems from them producing the same garbage printer for over a decade rather than its open source nature
money and greed
>>106469986They do that with closed source just as easily. China is amazing at reverse engineering. Especially when everything is manufactured there anyway and they have free and unlimited access to all of the parts and most of the design.
