If GlowForge goes under

[zfam]

@dan do you have a contingency plan for user software should the company go under?

[marmak3261]

I’m replying to the topic title statement:

I don’t recall any other statements that have departed from this, other than the sincere desire to remain a solid company that supports the current hardware and that the lights will be kept on forever. But there is a contingency. Just to put the links that inevitably will get posted in reply as this is an open forum and invites discussion and commentary by all:

We’ll release a GPL-licensed firmware for Glowforge

We’ve heard a ton of amazing feedback from our community in the 12 or so hours since Glowforge has launched, and one question stood out to us: what if you buy a Glowforge, and something happens to us? This came up both in person at MakerCon while we demo’d the unit and online, particularly in the lively discussion on Hacker News. Because Glowforge is powered by the cloud, it’s an important question. Long term, we’re working on some cool solutions, but short term, here’s a commitment we’ll make …

Skydog

Some years ago I backed the Skydog router on Kickstarter. It’s a wifi router that promised to be easier to administer. Now, three years later, they’re shutting off the cloud service. They’re not opening the firmware, so my router is turning into a brick. I’m sharing this here because I know it’s a fear people have about the Glowforge cloud ecosystem. It’s the reason that we made our open firmware announcement - so even in the very worst case, where Glowforge servers cease to exist, your inv…

I trust Glowforge, but how do we avoid a Revolv scenario?

I apologize if you got the wrong impression here: I’ve stated that we will not do this. I hope our commitments have been clear and firm. Some of you may be familiar with the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), a champion of freedom in hardware and software. They wrote this piece about Revolv/Nest, which is sobering and worth a read. In it, they say: In an ideal world, Hub owners would be free to point their devices at a different central server, run by a third-party competitor or a trust…

[markevans36301]

If you have a problem with other people answering I’d suggest emailing them. This is a forum and people do that and you should expect it.

[zfam]

thank you

[whitetigertooth]

@zfam

not you

Ouch.

[jbmanning5]

But you… you’re ok.

[rand]

@zfam

I was asking Dan, not you.

Would you like his email address so you actually ask him in person so you don’t have to shout your question to everyone?

[bdm]

If you are not Dan…

Seriously, e-mail him, he doesn’t generally reply to threads

[dan_berry]

Someone rang?

[colleen_purdy]

Funny!

[newbies_234]

@zfam

I was asking Dan, not you.

[bdm]

“Paging Doctor Kane, Doctor Kane to the Burns Unit”

[newbies_234]

No way bro, he totally got you so bad bro. You were all like “here’s some helpful information” and he was like “I don’t even acknowledge you as a person because I am so superior and can only talk to C level executives about my crazy ideas that have been discussed multiple times”

totes burnt you so badz.

[bdm]

@newbies_234

No way bro, he totally got you so bad bro.

That moment when you have to check you are on the Glowforge Forum and not playing CounterStrike

[newbies_234]

It’s 2017, you’re not on CS.

[wesleyjames]

Still not bad enough to check for /r though. My monitor’d be on fire first.

[jbmanning5]

Give us old guys a break. We used to walk to school, uphill both ways, in the snow.

[jbmanning5]

No. @bdm would flag me for that one and @palmercr would determine that their was no native snow falling during that time period in my geographical region.

[bdm]

LOL i have only ever done a single flag (IIRC) though i admit i enjoyed it… perhaps too much.

I would never flag someone from trying to emulate Monty Python’s ‘4 Yorkshiremen’ sketch

[rand]

@jbmanning5

Give us old guys a break. We used to walk to school, uphill both ways, in the snow.

Barefoot – you forgot barefoot…