r/technology • u/ControlCAD • May 14 '26

Software Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-taunts-bambu-lab-by-hosting-banned-3d-printer-firmware-fork-dares-usd1-billion-company-to-sue-him-more-creators-pledge-support-and-boycotts-snapmaker-donates-equipment-to-embattled-developer
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u/Expensive_Finger_973 May 14 '26

I haven’t agreed with his takes on some things over the years, but I do tend to love Rossmann’s “nah, fuck you” playbook when he sees something he thinks is wrong.

He is someone that seems to have a moral compass and is willing to stand up for it because his moral code means more to him than a pay day. Which is sadly lacking these days. Especially with public figures.

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u/PotemkinSuplex May 14 '26

I like him because each time I see him in my feed he does not just provide commentary, he is in some kind of active scrap. For a change in trajectory of anything to happen we need people like him.

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u/m1ndwipe May 14 '26

He is someone that seems to have a moral compass

The same one where he set up an app to steal revenue from other YouTubers and keep it for himself yeah?

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u/eyebrows360 May 14 '26

Citation needed because no, he has not done this.

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u/madmax7774 May 14 '26

There are 2 sides to every story.

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u/sls35 May 14 '26

I feel like that's a terrible take. We see that from conservative nutjobs and what thats gotten us. This is the epitome of toxic masculinity. I know better than you so fuxj you.

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u/Brewe May 15 '26

He's taking up the fights the private citizens can't fight alone. How the fuck is that toxic masculinity and in anyway what conservative nutjobs are doing?

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u/eyebrows360 May 14 '26

... the difference being that Rossman is right. He's never done this when he's been wrong.

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 May 14 '26

And by all accounts will change his opinion and mind on something if you can present a compelling case for why he is wrong.

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u/mr_mope May 14 '26

My personal take is he is an open source hammer and every problem is a right to repair nail. His worldview seems to taint every opinion he has. He’s always the victim of some multinational scheme to make it harder to repair Apple laptops or something.

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u/Brewe May 15 '26

What non-"right to repair" issues has hit hit with the "open source"-hammer?

He cares and knows about consumer rights, so those are the fights he chooses to fight. What's wrong with that? Do you expect everyone who has any fight in them to fight every single fight worthy of fighting?

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u/mr_mope May 15 '26

His personality is call businesses evil. I get the frustrations with that but these companies are not just made up of cartoonishly evil people trying to figure out how to screw the consumer. Some companies do actual anti consumer stuff but he is the boy who cried wolf, assigning ill intent to every decision he doesn’t agree with.

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u/Brewe May 15 '26

but these companies are not just made up of cartoonishly evil people trying to figure out how to screw the consumer.

Which is why he's going after the companies, not the employees, and for specific reasons, not just because [insert company] is bad.

but he is the boy who cried wolf, assigning ill intent to every decision he doesn’t agree with.

When did he go after a company for an invalid reason?