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Subject: Re: [MakerBot] Re: It's like I can see into the future...
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I would like to see MBI develop a 'eventually open' license.

Some software companies have worked this way for a long time
so it is demonstrated to be sustainable.

Develop hardware/software with a 'delayed open' point.
For every generation of hardware/software developed, the
hardware/software 2 generations ago are 'opened'.

We already see some small commercial groups that use MBI buy
a new printer or so as soon as it is available and dump old ones
on the market as used but working printers.

This would allow continued commercially paid innovation, but
it does block the open source community from the 'latest and greatest'.

I have long wished M$ would accept this model, or cell phone/tablet
manufacturers, or like the Kodak flip camera (if I remember the name
right) but they would rather terminate the software/hardware
rather than allow it continue living open source.

Just my 0.02 quatloo