Thingyverse is owned by Ultimaker, Printables by Prusa and makerworld belongs to bamboo. I don’t really want to donate my models to a for profit company, so are there any similar community run alternatives where I can upload to? Cheers

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Prusa being “for profit” isn’t the same as the term implies.

    They are very much a socialistic company. Pretty much, their business model is open source.

    I think they are the winning choice in the same way that Valve’s Steam wins the game store/manager market.

    Prusa has given back as much as they have made.

    • corodius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      They used to be. As of the Mk4 and XL they no longer share a lot of their designs, and the source is also closed.

      Very sad to see.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      410·
      15 hours ago

      Prusa are 100% a for-profit organisation/company, they don’t attempt to sell printers or services at anywhere near cost, which is absolutely fine too. They are very much what the term implies, which is that they’re a business that has (and wants) to earn money. To say they’re not a for-profit company is absolutely delusional.

      Yes having a semi-opensource approach is their gimmick to get goodwill from people to get them to buy their printers.

        • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          43·
          15 hours ago

          You said that they were not a “real” for-profit company, which is just plain wrong. They have even monetised their printables.com platform, if that’s not a for-profit move in the most classical sense I don’t know what is.

          • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            26·
            15 hours ago

            why are you trying to change what I wrote? Its clearly there. I said none of that. You need to check yourself bro

            OMG monetized their platform. Because they are a business. I suspect you have no knowledge of their platform or how they do business or where or the history of their founder.

            • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              15 hours ago

              why are you trying to change what I wrote? Its clearly there. I said none of that.

              Prusa being “for profit” isn’t the same as the term implies.

              Well then I misinterpreted what you mention by that statement, what do you mean by it, if it wasn’t that they’re not a “real” for-profit company?

              I suspect you have no knowledge of their platform or how they do business or where or the history of their founder.

              No I have plenty experience and use printables a lot, it’s a great platform. I’ve been in-and-out of the 3d printer environment since early 2010’s, I perfectly well know their history and what they once were.