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Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL) (blog.prusa3d.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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Today, we are releasing the full CAD files for the CORE One and CORE One L frames.

There seems to be a custom licence.

The Restriction: You cannot commercially exploit the design files (selling the product or remixes) without a separate agreement.

The Protection: It includes an explicit patent license grant, protection against AI data mining, and a codified Right-to-Repair.

Most of the linked article is about the licence.

There's been a lot of talk about Prusa turning evil. Maybe it's a good step back.

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Yet a lot of those businesses lean on the work of prusa.

Yes, a lot of the groundwork was done by prusa, and yes a lot of companies are standing on their shoulders. Prusa 100% deserves a lot of credit for enabling what 3D printing has become today, no doubt about that...but they haven't really been innovative or at the front of 3D printing for a while, they stagnated and have been overtaken as a consequence.

Edit: most of the cheap Chinese manufacturers are ahead because they lean massively in to klipper and rely on the community there.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Prusa has innovated. Not on their printers, agreed there, but in the slicer they have. And imo, those brands that are standing on prusa's shoulders should pay them for that work but afaik, and do correct me if im wrong, they dont. Bambu does nothing back for prusa, the opposite even. They are killing the shoulders they are standing on and barely do something for communities. Creality was also that bad until they were forced to by a chinese maker that is now at large.
    Then other companies came and took creality's crown by using the opened designs.

    I joined the 3d printing scene at the wrong time as i saw giants like prusa slowly fall and be replaced with shit heads like bambu

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    My point is that any innovation by prusa, slicer or printer, is pretty much past tense.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Granted it's from a partnership, but the INDX extruder seems to be on the cusp, so the idea that Prusa is behind seems odd. And the fact that they're more open and consumer friendly than Bambu is great. There are a lot of affordable printers that have benefited from Prusa's development while Prusa is still dropping new developments, seemingly at a greater rate now than previously.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    INDX is done by a completely different company, you cannot credit their work to prusa at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It's a partnership and the INDX isn't a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it's not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say "completely" is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn't need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren't collaborations with the original manufacturer.

    If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus' ship of development?

    And that's not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They've been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    And im saying its not, because their changes still flow upwards towards the bambu slicer and the popular fork of fork, orca slicer, which are both based on prusaslicer and still integrate changes of prusaslicer. They have reduced in quatity and quality, because prusa is going under because of the shit of others

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