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
- complementary strengths,
- intellectual property and
- technical know-how, and other
- 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
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…