Elon Musk announced Thursday he had released all of the electric carmaker Tesla's patents, as part of an effort to fight climate change.

In a blog post, the colorful billionaire founder of Tesla promised the company "will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology."

It was a remarkable move in an industry where the smallest idea or seed of invention is carefully guarded to protect its monetary value.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-mu ... th-1986450

That's some excellent shit right there.

CDFingers

Excellent shit indeed! Unimaginable in the US. Maybe it will set a new tone? Nah.

Kudos to the South African, Canadian and US billionaire!

It will get him sued by his investors, and probably thrown out of his own company. Maybe.

IIRC, he has always planned to do this rather than hoard them.

If he actually puts this in writing either by formally giving up the patents or by providing a free to use license, then it will be something.

YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:53 am It will get him sued by his investors, and probably thrown out of his own company. Maybe.

Open access has been a hallmark of Tesla from the beginning. It appears the full open-sourcing happened in 2014 - I'm guessing the investors see that as a feature rather than a bug.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolom ... f756073c63

Tesla Goes Open Source: Elon Musk Releases Patents To 'Good Faith' Use

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-pate ... belong-you

All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014

And what is the US government trying to do with China’s illegal technology transfer? Oh yeah, protect American technologies interests.

I have the distinct feeling that Elon Musk is bordering on unAmerican activities. He’s a foreigner ain’t he? Birth Certificate!!!

In all honesty this is rather extraordinary. There are folks on the PriusChat board who bemoan the fact that the charging program that manages a 15 year old Prius’ hybrid battery is still a Toyota trade secret.

Let's just hope this helps us all.

Elon Musk is a pretty good egg as billionaires go. He's got his problems, but he really does have a vision of building the future and he's willing to put his money to use trying to acheive it.

This is an amazing moment in history... why isn't this front page news?!?!

All the Libertarians are still scratching their heads. Ayn Rand just summersaulted in her grave.

Bisbee wrote: Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:40 am All the Libertarians are still scratching their heads. Ayn Rand just summersaulted in her grave.

No statement from the Kentucky libertarians yet?

AndyH wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:51 pm All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014

And that is some more excellent shit!



CDFingers

Hmmm, I am certainly for more creative commons technology (Open Source, and its many cousins).

I wonder how Elon Musk has the actual right to do this given the huge value these parents have the the shareholders. After all, it is not 'his" company - it is a public company and this is a big change in the overall book value.

max129 wrote: Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:54 pm Hmmm, I am certainly for more creative commons technology (Open Source, and its many cousins).

I wonder how Elon Musk has the actual right to do this given the huge value these parents have the the shareholders. After all, it is not 'his" company - it is a public company and this is a big change in the overall book value.

Musk seems to act first and think later. Eventually, that catches up to someone.

K9s wrote: Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:37 pm

max129 wrote: Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:54 pm Hmmm, I am certainly for more creative commons technology (Open Source, and its many cousins).

I wonder how Elon Musk has the actual right to do this given the huge value these parents have the the shareholders. After all, it is not 'his" company - it is a public company and this is a big change in the overall book value.

Musk seems to act first and think later. Eventually, that catches up to someone.

I'm pretty sure that the plans to open up the patents have been publically known for some time, so I doubt any group of onvestors could credibly claim to have been surprised by this.


Yeah, here's an article from 2015 talking about the open patents.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150 ... -out.shtml