Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer

Bambu Lab threatened developer Pawel Jarczak over a fork of OrcaSlicer-BambuLab that restored cloud access, and Jarczak removed it.

Louis Rossmann, Gamers Nexus, Jeff Geerling, and Snapmaker publicly backed the project and its developer.

Bambu Lab said the problem was unauthorized use of its cloud infrastructure, not a violation of the open-source license.

The dispute underscores tensions between open-source modification, cloud control, and user ownership in 3D printer ecosystems.