Josef Prusa publicly calls out Bambu Lab for violating the PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, focusing on an opaque networking binary. He frames this in the context of China's five-law framework (2017–2023) — covering intelligence cooperation, cryptography, data security, counter-espionage, and vulnerability disclosure — arguing that Bambu Lab may have no legal ability to open-source its networking code because it serves as a state intelligence asset. He connects 3D printing's inclusion in China's 'Made in China 2025' strategic plan to explain why the data collected by these printers is geopolitically significant.
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