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From: Cymon <joealar...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is Makerbot Industries losing their vision?
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Sorry, which version are they losing? Their vision or your vision for them? 

Has makerbot every been about anything other than providing 3D printers to 
people with open-ness and fairness for all? Since when were they about 
providing kits for the DIY community? There are plenty of places providing 
rep-rap kits. Makerbot never has.

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:25:52 PM UTC-6, Kendall lui wrote:
>
> With the new release that Thing-o-matic kits will no longer be sold it 
> is hard to say whether Makerbot will be the DIY company as it once 
> was. I understand that they are still posting opensource files but it 
> seems that they have cut the DIY community off. Many of us want the 
> DIY kit. The words "Fully Assembled" scares us because we love to 
> build things. Yes, this will allow 3D printing to get into the hands 
> of the average Joe, but what happened to supporting the DIY community? 
> The DIY community is Makerbot's past who supported the little company. 
> It should be easy to sell both kits and pre-assembled which would 
> reach both the average consumer and the DIY market. Anyone have 
> anything to say? Am I completely wrong? If you agree we need to show 
> makerbot to create a derivative of the old makerbot to create a 
> brilliant company!


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Sorry, which version are they losing? Their vision or your vision for them? <br><br>Has makerbot every been about anything other than providing 3D printers to people with open-ness and fairness for all? Since when were they about providing kits for the DIY community? There are plenty of places providing rep-rap kits. Makerbot never has.<br><br>On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:25:52 PM UTC-6, Kendall lui wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">With the new release that Thing-o-matic kits will no longer be sold it
<br>is hard to say whether Makerbot will be the DIY company as it once
<br>was. I understand that they are still posting opensource files but it
<br>seems that they have cut the DIY community off. Many of us want the
<br>DIY kit. The words "Fully Assembled" scares us because we love to
<br>build things. Yes, this will allow 3D printing to get into the hands
<br>of the average Joe, but what happened to supporting the DIY community?
<br>The DIY community is Makerbot's past who supported the little company.
<br>It should be easy to sell both kits and pre-assembled which would
<br>reach both the average consumer and the DIY market. Anyone have
<br>anything to say? Am I completely wrong? If you agree we need to show
<br>makerbot to create a derivative of the old makerbot to create a
<br>brilliant company!</blockquote>
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