How many of you knew this?...
Every single patent Musk came up with for his Tesla operation...HE OPEN SOURCED THE PATENTS......
OPEN SOURCE...
........In that, HE DOES NOT OWN THEM. They are PUBLIC.
THIS is the guy that just bought Twitter.
You know what? If he says he's gonna open source Twitter, I am leaning towards believing him.
Patents are always open source, pretty much by definition. "This is how I do revolutionary technology XYZ, and no one else can do this while I hold the patent."
What Musk did was he allowed anyone to use his parents free of charge. Normally if you own a patent you either prevent others from doing the same thing, or you make them pay you a fee for using your patented technology.
Musk challenged the automakers to make electric cars better than he can. It's not completely altruistic, because if other automakers start making electric cars, that normalizes electric cars in society which means more Tesla sales, more charging stations, etc.
First 1/2 of your comment is not accurate as that is not what open source means. This does a reasonable job of explaining it:
https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source
Open source is rooted in software. Long story short Software developers got greedy and wanted to make money off of their development and work Also I've multaneously been able to Sue anyone for using their work.. The problem is software programming is mathematics and therefore not copyright able.
Through various loopholes software developers figured out that they could manipulate the patent system and patent their software, which is technically still not lawful but long story short there you go.
The open source movement as a whole was a kind of a poison pill against against the abuse of the patent system.
To Achieve part of This was Utilizing Open licensing, which was The center part of protecting free open source software. It actually made it illegal for people to try and hide the programming code from others. Contrary to what Microsoft wants you to believe, open source software is actually much more secure because you have lots of eyes on it to help find Security holes and plug them.
Shouldn't our voting be done on blockchain with open source code so we can keep an eye on what they are doing
This right here ^^ .. USPS filed a patent in late 2018 to do exactly this. Once the normies all become aware of the depth of fraud in our current election system there will be a lot more support for rolling this type of system out.
Problem is most people dont understand blockchain and when they hear the word they just think bitcoin which they also dont understand and because of lack of understanding they think its some sort of scam. They dont trust it. They hear horror stories of exchanges "getting hacked" and peoples money disappearing and think its the fault of the underlying tech vs the other systems and people around it.
Good news is more and more people are coming to understand and therefore trust the tech
The vote should be anonymous, but you should need to prove your identity, and also need to dip your finger in that light purple ink.
IMO, voting should be paper in person one day to minimize cheating. Florida was a good example. They were accurate and done early.
IF it is digital in any way, FOSS is the way to go. Allows you to keep an eye on the software yet keep it incredibly safe.
In theory, it would work great.
The weak point is in the human interface factors.
Paper. Votes need to be paper.
I was using OP's verbiage, "open source."
But to have a patent, you must specify what it is you are patenting. Patents we're originally created to protect cooking recipes, so to do that, you would have to disclose the recipe and then no one else can use it until the patent expires.
This is why companies like Coca-Cola do not file for patents. Instead their recipe is a trade secret which they don't have to disclose to anyone.
The idea behind Linux has always been copyleft. Go ahead and take what I did and repurpose it, just give me credit for the original.
Not always, of course this is just hearsay, but USPTO will/does hide certain patents. Examples would be extreme alt technologies, military importance etc.
That's different. That's classified technology.
Each patent only lasts 10 years before it become open source. You have to file (lots of money to file). After that, the secrecy only last 10 years before they publish.
I do believe that the period depends on the specific field the patent is in.
Aka it's not always 10 years. In some cases, 20, 25 etc.
I know of a patent that an pil company has that is almost 100 years old.
It allows for cheap energy. Not free but much cheaper and we could stop using gas powered vehicles. No charging stations for cars only mechanical repairs to the two.motors.
Patent system is horrible and must be bkockchained to get the government t out of it. They control too much through it.
What patent is that?
Agree.
You could be right. I only know about medical stuff.
How does Disney get away with keeping rights for decades old characters, many of whom were already in public domain for centuries?
Because frens here do not know patent law.
Certain patents last 14 years, others 20, etc. The problem I holder's didn't believe it was long enough for the originator to exploit the monopoly.
Eventually the law was changed so you could file extensions. Then it was more extensions.
Mickey isn't covered by a patent, but by copyright, which also had a limit. But the music and movie industries decided to fight for copyright extensions. Long story short it is life of author + extra. If it is a patent or copyright created by a corp.Corp., it gets even weirder. Copyright is 95 years + extensions.
THEN, it depends on when you put either in place, as you are grandfathered in and follow those rules.
All this to say, the original Mickey copyright has expired, but others have not.
Trademarks and copyrights are not necessarily the same thing as a patent.
They are copyrights and trademarks, different rules.
This is not patent related. It is copyright related.
Copyright normally extends some 25 years beyond the death of an author/creator.
It is likely that Disney trademarked the characters, which is a way of establishing intellectual property rights in this case. Trademarks do not expire automatically, unlike copyright or patents.
As far as I know....
Copyright is rewritten by Disney. Patent is physical stuff, Vopyrightus drawn and written stuff.
There is no secrecy when you file for a patent. That becomes a public record. And if anyone uses what you've patented while the patent is in force, you can sue them and win in court.
If what you patented was kept secret, then that wouldn't do anything to dissuade others from using that technology.
Wish this was the case, I'd like to see some of Nikola Tesla's patents. The cabal/DS hid those.