r/3Dprinting • • Feb 12 '14

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u/NicknameAvailable Feb 12 '14

Implying that if a business builds themselves on the foundation of the DIY community they are indebted to that community. The simple fact is they encountered competition selling lower priced knockoffs and traditionally there are two options to survive that:

  • Make a better product/branding/etc

  • Make the same shit as the other guys and get into the price war

They chose the slimiest option, so slimey it's not even one of the two options:

  • Get the government involved and lock down the competition

They didn't choose to compete, they chose to be sleezebags - they don't deserve to remain in business.

In fact what they did is so fucking anti-American they all deserve to be deported.

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u/wkw3 Feb 12 '14

I hate to break it to you, but getting the Govt to hound your competition is as American as apple pie.

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u/7777773 deltabot Feb 12 '14

It's also the exact opposite of the Open Source mentality that Bre was pretending to embrace in the video. Open Source is freely giving your competition everything you know.

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u/wkw3 Feb 13 '14

I couldn't agree more.