commit: 1dae73f124616d209f79b0fdb9b350f0a6d56028
parent e0aa41b039eb73f7d5a0796aa9c4e5c015123112
Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:39:58 +0100
Prusa correction
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1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/content/blog/2023-12-26-Prusa-is-floundering.md b/content/blog/2023-12-26-Prusa-is-floundering.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ date: 2023-12-26
Prusa is a 3D printer manufacturer which has a long history of being admired by
the 3D printing community for high quality, open source printers. They have been
struggling as of late, and came under criticism for making the firmware of their
-Mk4 printer non-free.
+Mk4 printer non-free.[^correction]
[Armin Ronacher][0] uses Prusa as a case-study in why open source companies
fail, and uses this example to underline his argument that open source needs to
@@ -133,3 +133,11 @@ and work with. You have to be creative, and you must do a risk/reward assessment
to understand how it applies to your business and how you can utilize it for
commercial success. Do the legwork and you can utilize FOSS for a competitive
advantage, but skip this step and you will probably fail within a decade.
+
+[^correction]: I sourced this information from Armin's blog post, but it didn't
+ hold up to a later fact check: the
+ [Mk4 firmware](https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy) seems to be
+ free software. It seems the controversy here has to do with Prusa
+ developing its slicer software behind closed doors and doing occasional
+ source-code dumps, rather than managing a more traditional "bazaar" style
+ project.
