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.
Wish this was the case, I'd like to see some of Nikola Tesla's patents. The cabal/DS hid those.