26 Prusa warns about the dangers to reprap, open hardware , potentially open source itself, coming from china and their abuse of the patent system in china and then using that to hit european and American companies (www.josefprusa.com) posted 294 days ago by evilplushie 294 days ago by evilplushie +26 / -0 Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead - you just don't know it yet | Josef Prusa / 3D printing How Chinas strategic focus on 3D printing and patent incentives since 2020 created a "minefield". 8 comments share 8 comments share save hide report block hide replies
why do we care about chinese patents?
Cause they use them to register for patents in Europe and America, claiming prior art or some such mechanic
we have zero reason to respect anything they claim, up to including things like the existence of the sun