Oh man I keep thinking that maybe if we stop talking about RepRap and
Makerbot perhaps it will just go away.... sigh.
All I know is that they have taken what was once a free program
willingly contributed to by far too many smart folks to count with no eye
to anything but improving it and making it available for FREE to everyone
and have put a nicer UI on it and now are calling it their own and selling
it. I HOPE they do the right thing and allow everyone to benefit from
their work on it BEYOND the TP and that everyone will continue to develop
and share this amazing program in the LinuxCNC community including Tormach.
I could care less about precedences or legalities or what other companies
have done. Doing the right thing is exactly that. Just going to watch and
see what they say and do over the next little while and hope for the best.
Peace
Pete
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ralph Stirling <
ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> wrote:
> Not quite, Gregg. Makerbot was purchased by Stratasys,
> not 3D Systems. Stratasys paid $400M, which is rather
> mind-boggling. Stratasys has now sued Affinia, a much
> smaller maker of desktop 3d printers. Affinia, fortunately,
> is large enough to fight back, and has challenged some
> Stratasys patents.
>
> -- Ralph
> ________________________________________
> From: Gregg Eshelman [g_ala...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:00 AM
> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PathPilot
>
> On 2/18/2015 7:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 08:50:21 PM Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> >> On 2/18/2015 7:07 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> In any event, I still think you paint them (Tormach) with much too
> >>> black a brush.
> >>
> >> The company that deserves that is Makerbot. Another one is RAMBUS,
> >> where when Intel, Micron and some other companies went together to
> >> create a new computer memory standard to replace SDRAM, one member
> >> sneakily filed patents and trademarks on it all, then proceeded to
> >> file lawsuits.
> >>
> > Quite familiar with the RAMBUS debacle, but MakerBot seems to be a new
> > entry in the extra rectums dept. Links plz, I like to stay reasonably up
> > to date. But if no great coverage on slashdot, I've likely slept thru
> it.
> > My fault of course, but... ;-)
>
> Makerbot was an early adopter and commercializer of the DIY Fusion
> Deposition Manufacturing technology, once the RepRap project got to the
> point of producing fully functional 3D printer designs.
>
> Look up makerbot patent controversy
>
> Makerbot was bought by 3D Systems. One of their products is a
> ridiculously overpriced 3D laser scanner, which can be built far cheaper
> with a turntable, any decent USB video camera, a laser line level and
> some free software.
>
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