Bambu Labs make indisputably excellent printers. However, that excellence comes at the cost of freedom. After a firmware release earlier this year, Bambu printers could only work with Bambu’s…
Honestly, I don’t see it happening. Granted, I’d be spared that outcome anyway, I run custom firmware on my X1. But while they’re a bit of a pain about some things, I don’t see them taking steps like that. They’re more of a Chinese pain (don’t share the source code, don’t follow the standards) than an American pain (money at every turn, subscriptions, vendor lockouts, etc).
Honestly, I don’t see it happening. Granted, I’d be spared that outcome anyway, I run custom firmware on my X1. But while they’re a bit of a pain about some things, I don’t see them taking steps like that. They’re more of a Chinese pain (don’t share the source code, don’t follow the standards) than an American pain (money at every turn, subscriptions, vendor lockouts, etc).