Comment by Brian_K_White
12 hours ago
You need both, because there really is no such thing as kill it in it's crib. The people that want this will continue to want it forever, and will continue to propose it forever. And eventually it works.
12 hours ago
You need both, because there really is no such thing as kill it in it's crib. The people that want this will continue to want it forever, and will continue to propose it forever. And eventually it works.
How would this situation be any different if BBL printers were open source?
The law doesn't care about licensing, there are just 2 groups of printers - those that follow the law and implement effective blocking technology and those that don't.
If BBL sells an open source printer that allows someone to trivially bypass proposed mandatory blocking technology, they'll be fined and held liable for any crimes that result from guns printed using their 3D printers.
So BBL, as open source as they might want to be, is not allowed to sell such a product.
The missing the third ingredient which is passing rollback resistant legislation in its place that protects these freedoms.
That makes efforts far more durable.
Than it’s a matter of showing up in court to defend attacks against the law(s) that protect it.
In this way, we can have durable change, but it’s a high cost road. By design I am sure.
Nothing is forever. This whole thing rose in the first place because a novel technology was used to make weapons.
To give another example, the whole modern anti-vaxxer movement was started by a doctor to sell bogus tests.