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>It sucks since Bambulabs is using their slicer and a lot of Prusa's technology as a foundation.

Prusa's slicer is just a fork of Slic3r so I'd say that's fair play. Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff.

> Prusa just aggressively brands opensource stuff.

I mean, they fork it, develop it further, and give it back to the community. That's entirely within the spirit of open source!

"Aggressively branding open-source stuff" would be like Chinese Alibaba sellers ripping off open hardware or Amazon redistributing PostgreSQL as an AWS SaaS offering.

I figured someone would take issue with that, I guess my problem is they don't do a great job of attribution.

It's the first point under Features.

> Free and open-source

> PrusaSlicer is based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci. Thanks to the strong community and a team of developers in Prusa Research we can continually add new features. Follow the development on our GitHub.

Thanks, I was spelling it wrong in my search.

It's literally on the loading screen.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/56096557/107885845...

It's not just a fork with rebranding though. The development done on top of slic3r are genuinely huge. And you can use this fork for any printer too (and plenty of people do).

It's nice to pay for actually open development.

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