http://glowforge.com/our-new-advisor-jennifer-lawton/
If you have been following the whole Makerbot Industries (and then Stratasys) debacle, seeing the name of Jennifer Lawton might give you pause.
I think I'm going to sit this one out.
For those of us who haven't been, can you give a TL;DR version of why this is significant?
For the slightly longer version the class action lawsuit conatins a lot more detail: http://www.adafruit.com/pdfs/makerbot/classaction.pdf
You can also check out Glassdoor reviews: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Makerbot-Reviews-E480203.ht...
I can confirm that the Makerbot 5gen is a defective product. We have one at the office gathering dust after trying to make it work for a few months. It is beyond hope.
Yikes. Clogged extruders and many software problems:
http://nicklievendag.com/makerbot-replicator-5th-generation-...