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.
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.
My idea is to have the US government issued Social Security Number serve as the anonymous identity. in Blockchain terms the SSN would be the public wallet ID. At the beginning of each election every SSN would receive 1 "coin" aka VOTE. the blockchain app would allow people to select their candidate and it would be immutable and verifiable.
This would serve to maintain anonymity, and ensure only citizens get to vote. Edit: after thinking this over, i see a few issues.. employers know SSNs, and what would stop Dems from grabbing SSN's from dead people? there would need to be another layer of obfuscation added involving SSN, but the blockchain addresses couldnt be the SSN themselves. Edit2: these are minor issues that can be addressed. setup correctly anybody could go back and confirm their vote was counted for the candidate they intended, and see every other vote in anonymous form within the blockchain - which is always publicly accessible. back to the bitcoin example: every time anybody has transferred any bitcoin to another is visible today within the blockchain ledger.. made anonymous because it only shows wallet id's that consist of random letters and numbers. Only the exchanges that convert them to Dollars know who belongs to those wallet ID's. a wise bitcoin user can obfuscate beyond this but i wont detail the process here.
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.