Bamboo spotted

It's not just the AGPL violation itself though. This is all part of a process of them trying to establish a vendor lock-in for their users:

https://www.3dnatives.com/en/bambu-lab-at-the-heart-of-a-...
(That was January 2025, it's gotten worse since.)

A friend of mine has a Bambu printer they bought before this controversy blew up, and he said he's never connecting that thing to any network with internet access, and that he's never upgrading the firmware. And that in the future he'll most likely not buy another Bambu printer.

It's a shame really, because before this whole controversy a _LOT_ people in my orbit were actually recommending them due to their build quality and how easy they were to set up. And now nobody I know personally is still recommending them, precisely because of their shenanigans.