Talk:Genealogy / Archeology of the Prusa i3 X Motor End

Great work! I'm thrilled to see people starting to develop incrementally. --Traumflug (talk) 16:08, 17 December 2014 (PST)

Hi, thanks! Well I guess what you call "incremental development" is what I think the GNU / Open Source philosophy is all about i.e. the source code is there for all to see and fix / improve and keep "alive". Imho removing the proper attributions in Open Source code also removes much of the motivation for developers to release their code under a GPL or similar license, and closing the source or only releasing binaries makes it impossible for future developers to work on a piece of code (or 3D design as in this case). I think the Prusa i3 and its numerous variants is a classic case of Open Source development at work in the 3D / mechanical design domain and I was sorry to see it straying off the path, so I wrote this page to see if we can reverse this and put things on course again.