Feels like this is a reasonable compromise for them. They can release the source for their machines while still remaining in enough control to allow them to stay in business. It's similar to the Business Source licenses that we have seen from software companies recently. Not Open Source or Free but better than a lot of other manufactures. Does this leave the Voron as the only Open and Free design that is being built in quantities?
This license is so laughably bad I had a hard time writing a parody of it [1]. It's not open source, it doesn't accomplish any of its goals, it's not novel in any way. It's a joke, a smokescreen for Prusa and it won't do anything to save him from competition. Good luck, Josef. I'd encourage everyone else to avoid this like it's radioactive.
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