Tesla Motors Open Sources its Patents

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    [feedquote='E-Cat World','http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/06/15/tesla-motors-open-sources-its-patents/']The following was submitted by ECW reader Alain Samoun.This week Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors posted a dramatic statement regarding his company’s patent policy on his company blog. Here are couple of key excerpts from Musk’s post: “Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to […][/feedquote]

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    Elon Musk is not giving away his patent, but conceding them against the respect of some standard and openness...


    His goal is to create a market, being sure that he could have a bigger share if the cake is bigger.


    We may meet a similar problem with LENR patents.


    Many real innovators I've met are very negative on patents, not more positive about open source...
    Patent don't protect really, and opensource is used by big corps often to block innovation of smaller actors...


    Innovators finally says that being small, force them to run faster than the corps, because their innovation will be stolen... whatever they do.

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