This is sad on many levels, but for me it is most sad that Makerbot got caught up in the whole &quot;if we own the IP we&#x27;ll be the biggest fish in the pond&quot; mentality. They fundamentally did not understand that as big as the 3D printer market was when they switched over from open source to closed source, it was <i>not</i> self sustaining, and it still isn&#x27;t self sustaining. People like Printrbot came in with better solutions, people like Lulzbot out makered Makerbot, and in general the community revolted at them trying to be the only game in town after all the contributions from everyone in the community. Totally not the way to start a revolution but a good way to put the brakes on one.