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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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

May not be the best place to ask, but I’d love to get into 3D printing.

What’s a good entry level printer that’s OSS friendly?

Was looking at Bambu but they are extremely closed source.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Prusa printers are good but there’s rumblings about prusa entering his villain era. Voron printers are complicated but great since you get to learn a lot by building your own machine.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh no, what rumblings would that be? Prusa has always been a ray of hope..

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More and more of their stuff is not open source and there’s some questionable Israeli suppliers.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Jebus, fantastic.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in the same space. I want an open source printer that just works. Everyone says beginners should go with bambu or creately but I rather do open source.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

It's a real shit-show out there with those requirements unfortunately. Trust me, been down the rabbit hole.

Prusa are the best when it comes to Open-Source, but they ain't cheap.