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Elon Musk has always been a rebel. Now he’s an open source rebel.
While many in Silicon Valley have railed against patent wars in recent years, and some have lobbied Washington to reform patent law, Tesla’s taking an unprecedented step of opening all its electric car patents to outside use.
In a blog post on Thusday, Musk said Tesla has removed the patents decorating the wall of the company’s Palo Alto headquarters — a symbolic move to coincide with this announcement. Tesla’s billionaire cofounder and CEO writes that the company “will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.”
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It's going to be interesting to see what other car companies now do with Tesla's information. Making a move like this only tells me that Tesla has something crazy up their sleeves that will completely **** on the industry and REALLY put distance between them and their next closest competitor. Overall, this is great news for the planet. Good on Tesla for doing this.