<story><title>3D printer community revolting against Makerbot&apos;s new closed-source printer</title><url>http://marcuswolschon.blogspot.de/2012/09/occupy-thingiverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>I always found it slightly rotten when businesses use an &quot;open&quot; model to, in essence, get their fans and customers to build their product and market it for them, and then close it off for maximum profit once it reaches a certain level of maturity.&lt;p&gt;It feels like bait and switch.</text></comment>
<story><title>3D printer community revolting against Makerbot&apos;s new closed-source printer</title><url>http://marcuswolschon.blogspot.de/2012/09/occupy-thingiverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thesystemis</author><text>here&apos;s some links for more info&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-source-heroes-going-closed-source/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/19/is-one-of-our-open-sourc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformation-with-information/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformatio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hoektronics.com/2012/09/21/makerbot-and-open-source-a-founder-perspective/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.hoektronics.com/2012/09/21/makerbot-and-open-sour...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;tom igoe has some sensible words on this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/open-innovation/408/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/open-innovation/408/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;this is an interesting discussion in advance of this (unfortunately sold out) conference next week about open source hardware:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://summit.oshwa.org/schedule/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://summit.oshwa.org/schedule/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(hopefully they will ustream it)&lt;p&gt;many of the videos from the last summit are up, btw:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/KK8QN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://goo.gl/KK8QN&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>