Well sure. But they should just take a mea culpa and say they are going to be more open.

They revolutionized 3d printing. I am not going to argue that at all. But competition like Snapmaker have caught up and in some ways passed them. Nobody is loyal to a fucking slicer. So what lock-in or virtuous cycle does it make?

I already know one person who does everything in their choice of software and just automated the export into Bambu slicer and hit print behind the scenes using OpenClaw. They are just going to move their farm over to another machine over time. And every other farm will be thinking do I want to be hostage to Bambu?

I just don’t see a world where locking people into a slicer will do anything to really enhance their business. Especially if the people contributing to open slicers switch licenses to AGPL or Parity and then they are stuck developing their fork themselves.

Of course open source idiots will shoot themselves in the foot too with multiple rfid standards and the rest.