Replicator controversy

NOTE this is just a skeleton page. No guarrantee it will get out of that stage though.

The controversy was that not all sources were released.

Reasoning from Bre Pettis/Makerbot

(dont put counterarguments here, just summarize his points)

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/20/fixing-misinformation-with-information/, http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/09/24/lets-try-that-again/

Some things he links to: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/02/14/soapbox-the-unspoken-rules-of-open-source-hardware/, http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

Counterarguments

TODO

What actually was and was not released

TODO: the sources are here.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18813

Thingiverse TOS

Spat about the thingiverse TOS was probably ignited by it aswel. Very similar to criticisms of sourceforges' TOS. The TOS is probably completely harmless, however, Github completely works around the problem so they should put the worry to rest anyway.

Criticism toward reprap community response

Lack of documentation the reprap page at that time was terse to say the least.

Little reviews of what sources actually were and weren't there.(did i miss?)

What do we want companies to look like, how do we get it 'evolutionarily stable'? And once we have some kind of answer, what did makerbot do wrong?

Discussion didnt seem constructive enough. Perhaps such discussion should get a wiki page earlier.

Not quite ended?

This was(currently) mere weeks ago. We can still ask:

• Would it hurt them much at all if they open sourced after X years?

• Ask for a more github-like TOS

Aswel as deal with ongoing affairs and discussion related to questions raised above.(and improve this page)

Raw list of links of discussions

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,155484, http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,149017, http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,156007, http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,157068, Recent youtube vid Bowyer response (mailing list). reddit thingiverse license thread, Josef Prusa blogpost reddit thread thereof