Louis Rossmann verspottet Bambu Lab, indem es einen verbotenen 3D-Drucker-Firmware-Fork hostet, fordert ein 1-Milliarden-Dollar-Unternehmen heraus, ihn zu verklagen – mehr Entwickler versprechen Unterstützung und Boykotte, Snapmaker spendet Ausrüstung an umkämpfte Entwickler
https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-taunts-bambu-lab-by-hosting-banned-3d-printer-firmware-fork-dares-usd1-billion-company-to-sue-him-more-creators-pledge-support-and-boycotts-snapmaker-donates-equipment-to-embattled-developer
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Louis Rossman is a living legend. He is a national treasure.
I was about to buy Bambu but after this, fuck Bambu, I won’t be buying any of their hardware
bambu labs is wrong. AGPL license unreserves the portion of the law they are claiming. They acknowledge this and wrongfully try to claim that the breaking of their cloud tos allows this threat.
So instead of properly securing your service, so only authorized users or apps can access, and developing your api on zero trust principals, you are gonna further ruin your reputation going after some harmless person because he didn’t change the user agent string in his repo? Got it.
Honestly? Bullets dodged. Security and therefore privacy are clearly unknown factors for Bambu. User Agent strings are not security measures, they are for tracking and content tailoring.
Rossmann knows they wont sue because discovery would be a nightmare for them. Thats the whole play.
Bambu Labs can shove a Bambu up their labs and tear themselves a new one.
Can someone do a tldr about what this is about?
Louis Rossmann is a absolute legend for this. It’s crazy how Bambu Lab is willing to tank their own reputation over a legal threat they probably can’t even back up in court. Definitely makes me rethink ever buying anything from them if this is how they treat the community.
Snapmaker donating equipment to the developer is the best competitive move I’ve seen this year. Turn your rival’s PR disaster into your brand story.
What are the bambu glazing fanboys doing? Are they still coping or are they bailing on the company too?
Edit: I angered the bambu fanboys with my perfectly valid and perfectly phrasded comment.
Take note corporate america, this is the monster you created with your abuse of copyright law (and AGPL violations).. And he’s coming for you.
He is truly an inspiration.
Clippies strong together!
Louis Bossmann
Louis is the best. One of the only people actually fighting for us
Fuck I wanted a p2s for weeks and now I don’t want to support this crap.
I’ve never heard of this controversy, but my partner is thinking about buying a Bambu printers.
What’s the TLDR?
Creality might not be the best company in the world either, but I’m glad I chose their high-end printer over a Bambu.
I had been brewing the idea of buying a Bambu as a step up from my current printer. Given this sort of behavior from the company, I’m definitely not doing that now.
Open source communities are basically impossible to bully once people rally behind them.
Rossmann doesn’t just talk about right to repair, he puts his neck out every single time. Most advocates wouldn’t dare a company worth a billion to sue them.
Can I get an ELI5? I’m confused
Holy shit that article was written so poorly I could barely read it.
*“At the same time, a license for code is not a pass to our cloud infrastructure,” the company said. These are two separate things“*
Nobody asked to send their prints through your damned cloud. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and there is absolutely no legitimate consumer benefit to having it. It’s for spying on us.
Their defense:
> We have documented incidents of service outages caused precisely by spikes in unauthorized traffic – overwhelming the servers, causing service disruptions affecting everyone. The cost was instability felt by all users.
But the „documented“ incidents based on [their status page](https://status.bambulab.com/):
> May 11, 2026
> Our cloud service provider has found that part of the European network is currently experiencing issues, which may cause unstable connections to our services hosted in AWS.
> Dec 05, 2025
> Cloud services are experiencing access issues due to a Cloudflare outage.
> Nov 18, 2025
> We are investigating access issues for some users due to a Cloudflare network problem.
> Oct 30, 2025
> The issue occurred when a scheduled TLS certificate renewal disconnected the replication connection between primary and replica nodes. Certificate renewal process identified this outdated certificate and terminated the connection, triggering a full resynchronization of several hundred gigabytes data.
> Oct 3, 2025
> Between 08:02 and 11:52 UTC+8, some users experienced intermittent issues accessing our cloud services. After a joint investigation with our cloud provider, AWS, we have confirmed the root cause was network instability from the carrier, Cogent.
So where are these „documented incidents of service outages caused precisely by spikes in unauthorized traffic“?
if anyone just saw this and wonders whats going on
Bambu is essentially apple of 3D printing world, and recently tehre is a push to stop them from doing what apple did with all the services, unrepairability etc.
Just to add my voice to this: Was considering buying a Bambu Lab X2, but their attitude shows that they can’t be trusted with our money.
Not that I had any plans of running custom firmware or not using the services they offer, but if I’m spending so much money on hardware I would like to know it works even if the company disappears or stops supporting it.
It’s not rocket science. And no amount of «we’ll open source it if the company goes bankrupt» promises is worth anything. Companies get bought out by other greedy companies. The only thing we can trust is what is given and licensed freely.
Also pretty sure that the writeup/blog post published by Bambu is some AI generated slop, but sadly no way to really verify that…
I haven’t agreed with his takes on some things over the years, but I do tend to love Rossmann’s “nah, fuck you” playbook when he sees something he thinks is wrong.
He is someone that seems to have a moral compass and is willing to stand up for it because his moral code means more to him than a pay day. Which is sadly lacking these days. Especially with public figures.
I love this guy lol
Corporate bullying in the 3D printing world. Wish I was surprised. I hope these guys can stave off the oligarchy.
Here i am, doing whatever i want with my $75 frankensteined creality monster.