Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
Go back 15 years and tell someone that for £500 you can buy a small box that essentially replicates an entire plastics factory and can go from simple design to useable part in a matter of hours (or less) and it'll cost you just a few pence in materials. They wouldn't believe you.
They probably would if you told them how many hours the open source community had toiled to make it work. It is a constant source of amazement to me that this software, be it firmware for the printer or front end for the PC, is so functional and easy to get and use.

If ever there was an indication that non-opensource is a dying thing then this is it.