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[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company (youtu.be)
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https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Brother_Ink_Lockout_%26_Quality_Sabotage

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[โ€“] Ensign_Crab 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By my count, it's been tried twice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Makerbot after the Stratasys buyout.

There were a bunch of companies that tried right after the FDM patents expired in 2009. Most of them were completely forgotten or ignored because they were closed source (and more importantly closed material) companies and never got very far off the starting blocks.

Bamboo learned from them and decided to pull the rug out after getting a foothold with finally selling decent prebuilt hardware for less than a fortune (see Ultimaker before buying out MakerBot at least).