Talk:Genealogy / Archeology of the Prusa i3 X Motor End

Great work! I'm thrilled to see people starting to develop incrementally. --Traumflug (talk) 16:08, 17 December 2014 (PST)

Hi, thanks! Well I guess what you call "incremental development" is what I think the GNU / Open Source philosophy is all about i.e. the source code is there for all to see and fix / improve and keep "alive". Imho removing the proper attributions in Open Source code also removes much of the motivation for developers to release their code under a GPL or similar license, and closing the source or only releasing binaries makes it impossible for future developers to work on a piece of code (or 3D design as in this case). I think the Prusa i3 and its numerous variants is a classic case of Open Source development at work in the 3D / mechanical design domain and I was sorry to see it straying off the path, so I wrote this page to see if we can reverse this and put things on course again. --AndrewBCN (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2014 (PST)

Nice page! BTW, J.Rodrigo and Mecan0 (Manuel Palacios) are not the same person. You can see the origin of the SCAD files for PowerCode (from the original ones in Catia) in this thread [1] --Xoan Sampaiño (talk) 02:52, 18 December 2014 (PST)

Thank you very much Xoan, I will correct the page! Also somewhere I think I have to mention your significant contributions to the design of various improved Prusa i3 parts (and I know - from reading your source code - that you are respectful of the GPL)! --AndrewBCN (talk) 17:53, 18 December 2014 (PST)