Just excited that I uploaded my first few designs to  - will be many

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Just excited that I uploaded my first few designs to #thingiverse - will be many more to come! Love being a part of the open source community :smiley:

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Ah! Yes, I had forgotten about it - Tell me, I know makerbot own thingiverse, but is thingiverse not really open source? What is different about http://youmagine.com? (excuse my ignorance!)

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@Justin_Shaw The Thingiverse website is no more open source than the Makerbot 3D printers. But the YouMagine website is not open source either, else please indicate where its sources are available. Is Ultimaker really an open source company? The Ultimaker 2 was not released as open source. The original Ultimaker’s sources were only released when the U2 came out. Other companies are open source right from the start and to the end of their printers’ development.

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If I uploaded a scad file for my stls, would that not make it open source? The source is there to be freely manipulated by others is it not? What makes the two websites NOT “open source”?

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You are confusing the website itself with the content it hosts. You may have selected an open source license for your uploaded design, but it does not make the website itself open source. For that, the source code for the website would have to be available. For example WordPress which is a well-known CMS is open source.

As far as I know, the only things open source that Ultimaker provides is Cura and the first Ultimaker printer design.

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@Justin_Shaw
I like your take on it :wink:

There IS a lot of licencing etc with this “open source” stuff… it’s a pity, because the ONLY reason that ‘open source’ stuff requires a licence in the first place is so that no-one has the right to grab the idea, call it their own and close-source it… (From my understanding)

It would be nice to be able to help the world WITHOUT any legal ‘red-tape’ :wink:

Cheers for the kudos :wink: