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I guess they're just going to end up being really good but heavily overpriced like the rest of the FormLabs products.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Founded in 2021, Micronics is the product of recent University of Wisconsin grads who threw themselves into the problem of democratizing access to industrial printing tech.

unless they go open source, to me this aquisition is a similar but worse situation than IBM and Redhat

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Selling out this quick to a company obviously trying to reduce competition, feels like they weren't all that committed to the cause.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Every man has his price at which he'll abandon any cause. Running a business is hard -- It's a big gamble and full of costs and expenses, you have to warranty the crap you make, source parts, fight with vendors, the whole lot. It's a pain in the ass. But taking a big cash payout is easy.

I'll bet these guys had student loans. And I'll bet you they don't anymore.

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