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0 pointsreaperman3y ago0 comments

> Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff.

I mean, they fork it, develop it further, and give it back to the community. That's entirely within the spirit of open source!

"Aggressively branding open-source stuff" would be like Chinese Alibaba sellers ripping off open hardware or Amazon redistributing PostgreSQL as an AWS SaaS offering.

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operatingthetan3y ago· 3 in thread

I figured someone would take issue with that, I guess my problem is they don't do a great job of attribution.

kryptn3y ago

It's the first point under Features.

> Free and open-source

> PrusaSlicer is based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci. Thanks to the strong community and a team of developers in Prusa Research we can continually add new features. Follow the development on our GitHub.

operatingthetan3y ago

Thanks, I was spelling it wrong in my search.

Symbiote3y ago

It's literally on the loading screen.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/56096557/107885845...

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