Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
Actually you generally have 3 choices.

3) go on youtube and watch a video on how to convert your drm machine to opensource filament. Pretty much all the desktop systems have been 'jailbroken' as it were.
In some cases you can actually print a little doohickey that reroutes the filament from a standard spool through the propriatary cartridge - I think I saw that on a davinci printer of some description. In others you might have to hack the cartridge itself. But there are a lot of ingenious people out there who spend a lot of time on this sort of thing.
But, that option simply feeds their coffers. You have to buy the machine to jailbreak it and that puts money in their pockets and voids your warranty so they don't have to support it. That is a win for them as well. The only way they will change is when they see enough revenue walking away to buy competitor's machines. That is how you change their minds.