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by ppchain 39 days ago
There are two reasons to be mad here and you only covered one. The first is that Bambu is trying to remove (for the 2nd time) features from existing printers.

The 2nd thing, and the reason the linked repo is now hosted by Louis Rossman (YouTuber / Consumer Rights guy) is that Bambu are abusing the AGPL license of the original slicer code. TL;DR is that Bambu Slicer is a fork of an AGPL lineage of similar tools. The gatekeeper of the cloud features hosted by Bambu was a user agent string embedded in the AGPL code. The original dev of the linked repo just copied and pasted AGPL code, and Bambu sent a cease and Desist. At least Louis Rossman believes that violates the AGPL terms against additional restrictions which is why he is hosting the repo, because the original dev was chilled from wanting to deal with the legal threats.