[anakaine]

I dont understand what the issue is. Theres not really any benefit in having cloud enabled if local is working fine. I have my bambu printer set to local only, and dont miss the cloud offer one bit.

[xattt]

There abusing the AGPL. At this point, it’s on principle.

[vfvthunter]

Please explain how they are abusing the AGPL

[wat10000]

They threatened legal action against the author of a fork of their AGPL'd software merely for distributing said fork.

[vfvthunter]

That they are. However, that's abusing the developer, not the AGPL.

[wat10000]

I disagree. They’re redistributing software under the AGPL while trying to prevent others from using the same freedoms they’ve been granted by the license.

[vfvthunter]

The fact that Pawel was able to copy their source code and paste it into an Orca fork is direct proof from Pawel himself that they are honoring the AGPL.

The C&D presumably wanted him to remove the ID/version string or at least stop distributing it, i.e., they only want real BambuStudio on their cloud and that was the laziest way to achieve that

AGPL does not have a "don't be an asshole" clause

[oliwarner]

Proprietary plugins in [A]GPL software are always contentious. It's the old linking argument and it's especially strong here, given how useless Bambu Studio is without the networking plugin.

[_flux]

I imagine some (many?) people just enjoy accessing their printer over the mobile phone without setting up VPN, even if said mobile phone isn't on the home wifi.

[oliwarner]

This is a distraction though.

There's no reason I couldn't access through the cloud on my phone and from Orca locally without any cloud. The spool management is on the physical printer. I don't need Orca to use their cloud; it just needs to chat to the printer.