Post #2979404

2026-05-14 16:02 UTC

Because what Bamboo has done is screw over existing customers. People want their printers back to the way they baught it. They shouldn't have to throw their printers in the trash because the manufacture decided to changed the conditions. If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you'd be pretty upset.

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@0ops@piefed.zip 2026-05-14 19:25

> If you buy a car with heated seats and 3 years later, the manufacture decided to disable your heated seats unless you paid a subscription, you'd be pretty upset. It's sad that this isn't even an unrealistic example

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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-05-14 19:02

Tech companies do this every week. It's like a trade agreement with Trump. Both agree and sign a EULA, then they just throw it out. Cricut did this with their systems. Fucking legal because of shit laws.

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@tal@lemmy.today 2026-05-14 16:25

Sure, I'd like that, but I'm not going to keep personally fighting to make life better for that manufacturer's customers. Not when there are other car manufacturers that aren't pulling that stuff that people can be directed to. Is the message you want to send "if you buy product from a vendor who actively goes out of their way to dick over open-source developers, it probably won't matter for me as a customer because those developers will keep expending time and accepting legal risk to try to improve the situation for those customers"? Or do you want it to be "you probably want to look for open-source friendly manufacturers"?

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