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
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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.
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.
Ok, but I didnt say they are not a for-profit company
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.
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.
