repetier [ PM ]
Re: Did Repetier-Host went closed source? new
February 24, 2014 01:17AM

We tried the open source model for over 2 years. User contributions were very low, so nearly all work was done by us. So we ended working 10 hours a day 7 days a week which we could not spend earning money. In addition other used our work for their profit without sharing it with us. Fortunately not all companies go that way. Quite some printer vendors support us with custom host version and we believe this step will even increase the number of supporters, so we can keep a free host version with new features. The alternative would be to stop developing the host, which would be even more lost to the community.
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?26...771#msg-333771 Yea they did that.