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What I took from this...

posted 10 years ago by Kaptain_Bluddflagg
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...is that Bre Pettis is a pretentious hypocrite, Cody Wilson is a borderline psycho (and a raging douche), and that the same *beep* you see in every other industry is also present in this one.

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[–] mdelvecchio 9 years ago

ok let me explain it... some acquisitions are for IP, some are for talent, some are to get into new markets, and some are to get rid of competition.

during its short independent lifespan MakerBot may not have innovated as much as some may hoped for, but had they not been bought out, who knows? thats why big fish eat small fish. Stratasys neutralized a potential threat.

the fact that Voodoo PC (makers of the Envy gaming laptop) has been forgotten means HP's acquisition was a success, from their vantage point. the founders & fans may have a different opinion, of course. tho most founders WANT to sell, that's the business of startups -- grow, sell, retire. there are some who resist this siren's song, such as Dropbox, who has resisted acquisitions thus far.

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[–] Kaptain_Bluddflagg 9 years ago

Hopefully sometime soon we'll get the right technology for this to really take off. What we really need is a Bill Gates, not a Steve Jobs.

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[–] mdelvecchio 9 years ago

@sign in - i agree, this space, while innovative and interesting, doesnt have the mainstream appeal as general computing did. as you say, most folks arent engineers. how many use CAD? even if they had a $200 printer, what are they going to make with it? not spare parts for cars, because they cant install them.

it will be great for commercial markets as it lowers the cost of manufacturing types of items. but to equate it to the personal computing revolution is a stretch, imo.

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[–] mdelvecchio 9 years ago

@Kaptain - a Gates, not a Jobs? that doesnt make much sense. Jobs pioneered the at-home personal computing space, bringing desktops to the masses w/ the Apple II; this was a true revolution because computers had been very, very expensive and no normal people had any idea why theyd want one. Apple changed that in the '70s. during which time Gates was just a software vendor produce apps for Apple. even thru the '80s, when Jobs did it again w/ the Mac and popularized GUIs for the masses...and again Gates was just writing software for them, this time Excel for Mac (where Excel originated).

nope, what you need is a Jobs, not a Gates. Jobs introduced new markets to the masses; Gates was in the wings waiting to capitalize on those markets w/ software.

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[–] mdelvecchio 9 years ago

Bre Pettis is a pretentious hypocrite

if youre taking that all as fact, youre a fool. you werent there, you simply watched a movie somebody made. it was pretty obvious a lot of the fired staff had axes to grind.

as for hypocrisy -- not so much. having an "open hardware" company sounds great and all, until it's time to, you know, make money. then thats the end of that. if youre a for-profit corporation, anyway, which MakerBot was. the young idealists behind MB were forced to that realization, and some of them couldnt hang. it happens to founders all the time. they have the dream, then they compromise with reality. the guy at the end even explained it in those words, when people talk about "all the sacrifices" they had to make -- theyre not talking about late nites.

Cody Wilson is a borderline psycho (and a raging douche)

the gun guy did come off as a massive douche, because hes young & douchey, but i find his point is solid -- there can be nothing illegal about publishing the blueprints or digital files for a plastic gun. firearms are another tool, and legal ones at that. it's absurd to believe a tool-building device like 3D printing wont or shouldnt be used to build *certain* types of tools. who is the government to control that? or the manufacturer of these devices?

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