Stratasys Vs. The People - Intellectual Property

[Roxy]

Obviously this has nothing to do with protecting their intellectual property. They have sold their printers to anybody that would pay the price and they want those people to use the printers to make what ever their little hearts desire. What they don't want is for these people to use other (reasonably priced) sources for the filament. So... They have gone to great lengths, and have in fact invested a lot of money to create intellectual property to make it difficult to use other sources of material. They have gone so far as to try to lock out the user that paid money to own the Statasys printer from even using it how they want to use it.

I suggest that it would make sense to schedule Chris Carrol to come here at a pre-announced time to field questions from people that don't believe this is all about 'Protecting Intellectual Property'.

Specifically, the question I have for him is this: If your filament is so good and definitely worth the price, why would you even be concerned about people using other sources for the filament? Why do you have to force people to use your filament? Is it perhaps because it really isn't worth the price you charge?