Google+ post by Benjamin Rockhold on 2013-06-19 21:31:42 UTC

http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2013/06/19/makerbot-and-stratasys-announce-merger/

http://makezine.com/2013/06/19/breaking-stratasys-to-acquire-makerbot/

Quote: “Stratasys and MakerBot will jointly develop and implement strategies for building on their

  1. complementary strengths,
  2. intellectual property and
  3. technical know-how, and other
  4. unique assets and capabilities.”

(I added the enumeration)

I like to see what happens to the remaining Open Source spirit of Makerbot now.

A Thingiverse replacement can’t come too soon. I’m going to donate my time and effort to the Thing Tracker effort. https://github.com/garyhodgson/thing-tracker-network

@William_Warren is there a directory? because without one its useless.

Well, as it’s currently just a spec, is certainly useless. I don’t know if discovery is addressed, but I’ll know by tomorrow.

Well this could be bad…