What Does an Open Source Hardware Company Owe The Community When it Walks Away?

This week Prusa Research, once one of the most prominent commercial members of the open source hardware community, announced its latest 3D printer. The printer is decidedly not open source. That’s fine? My support of, and interest in, open source hardware is not religious. I think open source hardware can be an incredibly effective tool to achieve a number of goals. But no tool is fit for all…