cr00ky12h ago

F'Finally! Open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade... no stupid vendor DRM lock-in. Someone was apparently reading Enshittification from @pluralistic 😎
Will buy several, once available 👍

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Open Printer

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

Crowd Supply
Show threadJan Ainali12h ago
@cr00ky Not really open though. It has a non-open NC license...
Show threadMichel Patrice11h ago

@ainali @cr00ky

NC stands for non commercial?

I get the non commercial part for creative things such as books, music, pictures.

For a hardware, this makes it not really (or not at all) open source?

I'm not arguing, I just don't get the whole thing.

(Nevertheless, this printer is quite cool.)

Show threadÖlbaum5h ago
@MichelPatrice @ainali It’s because of turbonerds like you, with your endless No True Scotsman fallacies, that we can’t have nice things.
@cr00ky
Show threadJan Ainali
@oscherler You can have all the nice things you want. But if we are bending the definitions, what's the point of trying to define anything at all? Just call it a really cool, repairable and modifiable printer. There's no need to leech on the open movement for this to be a great printer. @MichelPatrice @cr00ky
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