There is a significant difference between open sourcing code and meeting a legal requirement. They haven’t maintained the source nor provided enough information to build from scratch if it were even possible with the source provided. On top of this, new machines cannot even dream of installing custom firmware as the console port has been removed.
If we don’t it there s no chance to prevent it. Kind of like democracy and why people protest. Whether we have true influence is another story.
Also, some irony as instead, you got your shorts in a twist over a post on the internet.
I wasn’t presenting facts so much as providing some insight into the question that was asked (you know as the subject of this thread). If you were to read the forums over the years you would see all these topic be discussed and wonder “Why is everyone so mad?”
Simple as that, you seem to be reading into things and jumping to false conclusions as one does when to defending decisions they’ve made in the past.
I also never once called you out on this thread and your response added no additional value.
Nice hyperbole, have any actual information backing this. Just calling you out as you did me
P.S. I came back looking to see if things got better, it appears the forum is still moderated by people like you. As I said we learned a lot from the GlowForge and have upgraded to larger more configurable machines and are really happy with them.
I don’t see any malintent in this response (this is a very strange thing to say.) I think you also missed the point of my post. I was answering the question asked with my personal experience not inviting someone to explain to me how my experience was wrong.
Which TOS are you referring to the current one or the prior ones we no longer have access to? I honestly don’t care about the TOS, in the U.S. any EULA can be modified at any time to make any change a company wants and all users must agree to it if they wish to keep using the service. I accept that. It’s not a defense user should use to support a product.
Most certainly. (BTW my shorts are untwisted. I try not to argue with the unarmed although occasionally I make an exception.) But here’s a link to a search you might want to review for the many many many (yes, thousands and even tens of thousands considering how many were sold and how few folks statistically speaking are throwing in the towel) of folks that seem to be effectively using their Glowforges.
Oh, look, a whole section of examples of folks using this thing most effectively:
Enjoy your browsing.
And just in case, the Great Google shows 109,000 hits on “glowforge project examples”.
And 88,000 “Glowforge examples” hits.
Good luck with your alternative machine. I also have another (60W Redsail) but find I’m almost always using the GF instead - quicker to go from idea to execution and I can use it in the basement vs the garage which 6 months of the year is too cold for comfort. But I’m not using it in a commercial enterprise so it’s good for me. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend the GF for a commercial entity due to the issues around support timeliness, parts availability, single-sourcing etc. but for the bulk of the people here, it seems to be an appropriate tool.
