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Companies may ditch patents in favour of open tech research
More companies than ever before are likely to open themselves, their technologies and their patents up to the public in the next 10 years. The trend, which was popularized by Tesla Motors, is set to be embraced by companies due to the potential benefits for research and development. “I definitely think companies are going to open up parts, and even big companies who have thousands of patents on the shelf which they don’t use, they will slowly sometimes open them up so people can start...
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I hope they do. This is much more logical..And of course,I use as much open source as i can get my hands on as it is.