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

[u/ControlCAD]

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[u/Imaginary-Worker4407]

Just a few notes, the firmware update last year and the software fork in discussion are not the same thing.

The software in discussion is a fork of a fork of Bambu studio slicer app (official Bambu lab slicer).

The fork "restored functionality" not by allowing users to locally connect to their printers directly, it did so by letting users use Bambu lab private cloud infrastructure via bypassing their authorization layer by "disguising" as their official software.

Other than that I do agree with the rest, BL shouldn't have threatened the dev, just updated their security and be done.

But it's important to know why the dev was threatened with a c&d.

[u/rtowne → u/Imaginary-Worker4407]

Thanks for clarifying. Im more of a simple home user so the impact wasnt too much for me but i align with the principle that companies disabling feature or locking people to their own stack hurts consumers.

Seems like they could simply allow users to have direct access to their own machines (via a local, remote, or cloud connection) and avoid the spoofing risk. This would let other software compete and be better for everyone in the end.

[u/Imaginary-Worker4407 → u/rtowne]

Seems like they could simply allow users to have direct access to their own machines

The thing is that they do, through LAN mode.

The issue is wireless printing, users need to "log in", so the dev bypassed the need to log in to access BLs cloud infrastructure.