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Originally Posted by Langy
No, it just means that the nanofab itself is a proprietary system and they don't allow people to mess with it or print anything that hasn't been specially prepped for it by some organization or another and distributed by it (like the app store on an Apple smart phone).
Also: I'm not sure why we're talking about bioroids in this thread. They aren't a good feature for the type of game the OP seems to want to run, as they'd essentially render humans obsolete and worthless. That's a completely different type of dystopia, and the OP doesn't seem to want a dystopia at all.
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It's a fair point that nanotechnology advanced enough to fabricate almost all consumer goods from generic mush might inevitably be used to build bioroids.
But, though the financial discussion here is completely beyond me, I still think the human-rights aspect of bioroids completely overshadows it. I see no way that unambiguously sapient people being treated as property wouldn't be nipped in the bud by various advocacy groups and public outrage. "What if it's happy with its job?" is not much of a grey area either; it's just brainwashing.
Even just making bioshells with NAIs inside might be controversial; working alongside human-like-but-dead-inside automatons might trigger an uncanny-valley response for a lot of people, and more than a few religions would see their human form as confusing at best, and blasphemous at worst.