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There seems to be a misunderstanding of how the Shapeways store worked - when buying a model already available (as opposed to uploading your own), you weren't buying a Shapeways product; you were buying a product that another hobbyist/small business designed, made available for public use, and Shapeways would just print it on demand. Think along the lines of a publishing company that uses a print-on-demand service to fulfill book orders, except in this case Shapeways was providing the sales interface as well.

In the greater context, this matters because a sale of Shapeways may not guarantee all the models move over as well (the creators of the models will probably have a say in if their own stuff gets transferred in this scenario). On the positive side, those same creators may take their models and find another company to support them. Whether a product remains available will most likely be determined by the will of the (now severely inconvenienced) creator rather than Shapeways or a successor.

~Chris

@C.Vigs posted:

In the greater context, this matters because a sale of Shapeways may not guarantee all the models move over as well (the creators of the models will probably have a say in if their own stuff gets transferred in this scenario).

Apparently Shapeways is declaring that all the files that folks thought were their own IP is being taken as IP belonging to Shapeways as per one of the vendors I was hearing from last night who has 1000's of products resident and reliant upon there - it appears that the guarantee is not.

@C.Vigs posted:

There seems to be a misunderstanding of how the Shapeways store worked - when buying a model already available (as opposed to uploading your own), you weren't buying a Shapeways product; you were buying a product that another hobbyist/small business designed, made available for public use, and Shapeways would just print it on demand. Think along the lines of a publishing company that uses a print-on-demand service to fulfill book orders, except in this case Shapeways was providing the sales interface as well.

In the greater context, this matters because a sale of Shapeways may not guarantee all the models move over as well (the creators of the models will probably have a say in if their own stuff gets transferred in this scenario). On the positive side, those same creators may take their models and find another company to support them. Whether a product remains available will most likely be determined by the will of the (now severely inconvenienced) creator rather than Shapeways or a successor.

~Chris

@mwb posted:

Apparently Shapeways is declaring that all the files that folks thought were their own IP is being taken as IP belonging to Shapeways as per one of the vendors I was hearing from last night who has 1000's of products resident and reliant upon there - it appears that the guarantee is not.

This illustrates the scary nature of relying on information that's stored in the "cloud".  I sometimes feel dumb when I keep my hard-copy books and magazines, but then something like this happens.  In addition, I double down by making my own electronic copies of stuff that's important to me.  It's just too easy for someone to pull the rug out from under us.

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