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by FjolsvithAase 1689 days ago
https://www.thingiverse.com/devonjones/collections/openforge
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This is interesting -- quickly browsing through this list, I note that some of these .stls are literal alternatives to "sold" "products", like these legally distinct siege bunnies. [0][1] On the one hand, it's surely problematic for the original modeller, but on the other it's "just" similar (not identical!) instructions to the printer. Has this modeller "stolen" from the paid guy? How about from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

We all know and laugh at "illegal primes", but my intuitions, about how this applies to (what will eventually be, at its final stage) a physical object, are confusing me.

[0] https://haylandterrain.com/products/trojan-bunny

[1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3916454