Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
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Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
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Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#2While I'd lean more towards plain ol' capitalism as the reason for small market players going under, the final point of the article (discussing patent related legal barriers on existing open source innovation becoming a main strategy of large industry players) is a very important one to keep in mind for people on this site in the hardware startup space:
"This is a story from 3D printing, but all the areas with heavy open hardware development are in Made in China 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025 and its successors. Make sure you keep an eye on the filings around your expertise, it is incomparably much easier to do something now than later."
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#33d printing isn't dead. The policies and programs that encourage it's adoption with lower cost are.
But my bet is on clever people figuring out and systematizing things to reduce the current high cost items.
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#4It's time that prusa gets outside pressure their printers stagnated in innovation and got more expensive. They don't even have machines in the entry/starter category anymore. Why should anyone buy from you if he gets a better experience for less. Especially now that they started to abandon their own core values just have a look at their new offerings they are the opposite for what they plead here. Less open.
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#53d printing isn't dead. The policies and programs that encourage it's adoption with lower cost are. But my bet is on clever people figuring out and systematizing things to reduce the current high cost items.
The claim is about open hardware, not 3d printing in general. And the claimed problem is that the clever cost reduction is Chinese state subsidies.
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#6It's time that prusa gets outside pressure their printers stagnated in innovation and got more expensive. They don't even have machines in the entry/starter category anymore. Why should anyone buy from you if he gets a better experience for less. Especially now that they started to abandon their own core values just have a look at their new offerings they are the opposite for what they plead here. Less open.
this is an article about patent trolling and government involvement, not innovation or competition on price
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#7It's time that prusa gets outside pressure their printers stagnated in innovation and got more expensive. They don't even have machines in the entry/starter category anymore. Why should anyone buy from you if he gets a better experience for less. Especially now that they started to abandon their own core values just have a look at their new offerings they are the opposite for what they plead here. Less open.
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Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#83d printing isn't dead. The policies and programs that encourage it's adoption with lower cost are. But my bet is on clever people figuring out and systematizing things to reduce the current high cost items.
The article's assertion is specifically "open hardware" 3d printing, facing patent challenges [ other parties patenting designs released as "open" to the community ] especially in China, open hardware designers can't get their work manufactured in China ( in this very example, but similarly in any other country where the patents are filed ) or imported/exported because they become Infringing materials of the patents filed by other parties who have copied their designs.
Open Hardware designers are having to become international patent experts, which is more expensive than releasing the designs to the community for free.
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#9While I'd lean more towards plain ol' capitalism as the reason for small market players going under, the final point of the article (discussing patent related legal barriers on existing open source innovation becoming a main strategy of large industry players) is a very important one to keep in mind for people on this site in the hardware startup space: "This is a story from 3D printing, but all the areas with heavy…
> While I'd lean more towards plain ol' capitalism as the reason for small market players going under
He seems to point pretty directly to Chinese subsidies allowing those printers to be sold under cost. That’s not capitalism.
Re: Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?
#10Fortunately patents are very time limited - and so all those will expire in a decade or so and then you can make whatever.