Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: This is not unprecedented: > > https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you > > Whaddya know! That document is titled "All Our Patent Are Belong To You." That's an inside joke based on a video game. That is a flippant way to put it for a billion-dollar corporation. If I were a stockholder, it would make me uneasy. Elon Musk's subsequent behavior made stockholders uneasy.
Toyota's decision to put their patents in the public domain seems more in tune with a conventional business strategy. I guess they are saying: "The patents are now free but if you want to use them soon in industrial scale production quantities, why not buy the equipment from us? It would be cheaper." It is a good faith gesture. - Jed
