[avianlyric]

> You can't make a commercial competitor of this printer using their design

Which means it's not open source. Open source means you have the right to distribute work however you want, including commercially, provided you also provide the source under the same license terms as the original.

The second you slap a non-commercial limitation on there, it ceases to be open source.

[stavros]

Of course it's not open source, there's no source to even be open or closed yet! It is Creative Commons, though, which is different.

[cwillu]

It may be using a CC license, but nothing that's marked NC is meaningfully part of the commons. Yes, some guy can make a part to fix his printer, but that guy can't sell those parts to other people.

The existence of a service manual doesn't mean you can get parts once the company disappears or loses interest.

[SwellJoe]

I didn't plan to go into the printer manufacturing business, and there's nothing more open, AFAIK. HP won't let you fix it when they brick your printer for not using their more expensive than blood ink.

[poulpy123]

It's open source : you have the right to study, copy, share and modify

[Aachen]

but conditions apply to that. Those rights you mention are not available in every circumstance, specifically in commercial settings in this case. That's the point being made; why many consider that not an open source license (not saying I agree or disagree)