Pulling back from open source hardware, MakerBot angers some adherents
MakerBot’s new, closed source Replicator 2 3D printer.
(Credit: Rich Brown/CNET)
You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in the open-source hardware movement.
Think of open-source hardware, OSHW, as the physical equivalent of open source software. The Open Source Hardware Association, founded just this past March, offers an extended definition for OSHW. Its Statement of Principles sums things up thusly:
Open source hardware is…
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