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.