The death of Thingiverse?

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I think what annoys akhlut and prusa here is the fact that "waive" sentence could be interpreted as a give up of the whole intellectual property

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Traumflug

> Regarding a "community owned" Thingiverse ... what
> is this community? As far as I can see, there is
> no such instance in the real world, it's a virtual
> thing.

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Some of you may think that I am rather lax in my pursuit of those
people who would appropriate RepRap technology and close it off,
thereby breaking the terms of the GPL. The reason that I am lax (and
I am) is because I don't care about those people. I don't care about
them because I know that by closing off the path
that they have chosen, they have turned it into a reproductive cul de
sac; they have made their machine sterile.

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Every RepRap can make RepRaps. Also, every closed-source 3D printer,
and every non-replicating 3D printer, can make RepRaps. But RepRap
won't make any of them. The exponential mathematics of the RepRap
population against the rest follows inexorably. Chasing licence
infringers will make almost no difference.

If you are taking part in the RepRap project, then I hope that you
believe Open Source to be a morally and politically good thing, as I
do. But if you don't believe that, you are still welcome to take
part, by me at least. When it comes to the success or failure of
RepRap, moral beliefs are almost completely irrelevant.

It is the evolutionary game theory that matters.