[codehero]

No story about early Makerbot is complete without mentioning their commitment to open source (which this puff piece deftly avoids). The open source story has been conveniently dropped.

Here's an excerpt from an Bre Pettis interview in 2011:

Does funding change the commitment to open source hardware? The funding doesn’t change our commitment to being open source. Why would we change a winning strategy? Being open is the future of manufacturing, and we’re just at the beginning of the age of sharing. In the future, people will remember businesses that refused to share with their customers and wonder how they could be so backwards.

http://makezine.com/2011/10/06/makes-exclusive-interview-wit...

[iamwil]

For those of you that don't know, he means their abandonment of open source that left the 3D printing community that supported them in the beginning in an uproar.