Bambu Lab 3D printers: Never again

TL;DR

Bambu Lab is legally threatening an open-source developer for using their own open-source code, proving the company can't be trusted to respect user ownership.

Key Points

• 1.Bambu Lab controls everything you print by routing files through their own servers. Unless users enable Developer Mode and block internet access, every print job passes through Bambu's cloud — a lock-in the author circumvents with OrcaSlicer and a local setup.
• 2.Bambu threatened legal action against an OrcaSlicer fork developer for using Bambu's own open-source code. The developer was accused of impersonating Bambu's app, but was literally using the same open-source code as Bambu's Linux client — a clear abuse of the open-source social contract.
• 3.Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 to support the developer fighting Bambu's legal threats. The author suggests the better play is simply to skip Bambu entirely, as consumer spending power is more effective than complaints at changing corporate behavior.