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They're not open source anymore. You can't be mostly open source, you either are or are not.
IMO they started exactly the same path Bambu goes (though Bambu has a great head start).
I admit this is speculation, but I got the impression that Prusa is moving away from open source because they're salty about other companies cloning their products and selling them much cheaper than the "original" parts. Proprietary parts, patents, etc. is of course worse for the user than a fully open ecosystem, but he isn't necessarily going full anti-consumer.
It's certainly possible. They are pretty explicit on it though, at least.
"For some products, we do not release the full PCB manufacturing layouts, as we do not want to support manufacturing of untested clone boards. "
https://www.prusa3d.com/page/open-source-at-prusa-research_236812/
Found the blog post that I was thinking of, with a little more about Prusa's relation with opene source. https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-state-of-open-source-in-3d-printing-in-2023_76659/
I mean, you either can afford Prusa or you can't. A Chinese fake Prusa knockoff is in no way interesting to people who want and expect the Prusa quality (though I haven't had much luck with the fabled quality myself, the printer needed fixing multiple times). And people who can't afford a Prusa are not a potential customer anyway. So cheap knockoffs are not stealing any customers.
Bambu is who's stealing Prusa's customers en masse and Prusa decided that they're gonna slowly lock down their ecosystem while benefiting from years of open source by other people and projects. Which is, ironically enough, their stated reason for locking their ecosystem - people benefiting from their open source work while being closed.
@fhein @rikudou I think it was easy for them to stay FOSS when they had not "real" competition, now that they lacking behind BL, they got emotional and started kicking around.
My 2cents.