This is freakin awesome

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

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

Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.

At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.

At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.

Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.

We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

YES!!!!! WIN WIN!!!!

~Russ

I couldn't agree more! Very impressive statement by Mr. Musk. I can only hope more companies will take this as an example to follow.

Open source is the future!

Everybody replicating Musk´s patents now in the open source will have to make similar investments as Musk did.

Full automated factories, biggest aluminum bending machines worldwide, modern robots to build those innovative components etc. those are the milestones Musk accomplished before the first Tesla was sold.

sometimes I feel that some people here confuse open source and total free of cost ... wrong conclusion!

there is no free lunch, sorry!

so I would really appreciate that more forum members would dare to invest an amount of their own money for practical experiments ...

no risk ... no progress ...

Musk open sourced after he finished his factories and years after production.

Musk´s biography shows that he really succeeds in his projects and creates real results. once he has reached his goal he takes another one.

so let´s take an honest look at our forum goals dealing with energy ... where are we standing and what is our forecast for a chance for a breakthru?

does not make too much sense to me to wait for someone else somewhere on this planet until he open sources his finalized product or at least his intermediate step. and if he did - who would then invest what amount of money?

Though Musk is a billionaire he did not finance his Tesla production exclusively on his own. he had financees and customers who were willing to pre-finance some of his operations. his magic word is not open source but professionality and broadly based competence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO5u4AJkwQ#ws

this professional organization is so much more than open source alone so that I´m raising the question if open source allone is sufficient to create real results or if it is only one of many components needed for a breakthru movement ...

let´s take a look at the Thrive movement, last year presented by Foster Gamble in Boulder.

It´s a network of activities driven by enthusiastic individuals.

what do both appoaches have in common?


it´s cooperation and activities.

Interesting turn of events for Tesla Motors.  My next question is will Mr. Musk land the contract with Panasonic to produce a massive amount of lithium batteries?

And the bigger question is will OpenSource be completely taken over by the big corporations?  My guess is yes it will.  Corporations have completely taken over our governments, our legal system, our military, our sovereignty and loads of other things that should be rightly possessed by the people, so I have little doubt about their future goals.  Be assured if you create a little box that produces all the electrical energy needed for an entire family, Open Sourcing it won't save your bacon.  You are owned by The Corporation and they will do with you as they please.  The only advantage OpenSourcing will give you is that the invention or idea might not circle the drain with you.  It might get into someone else's hands before you take the plunge.  But seriously, breaking the chain isn't that difficult and has been done before.

The best definition I can come up for OpenSource is:
It's not the final product that is free, it's how it was put together that is free.

Just because the "how" is free, doesn't mean it won't take massive resources for you to replicate it.  Also keep in mind, many products use both OpenSource and proprietary components and processes.  Without having legal blessing to those proprietary parts, you're dead in the water.  And speaking of legal, which side of the fence do you really think those folks are on?  Let me give you a hint:  Whatever side pays the best.

So where does this leave us?  Same place we've always been, at the mercy of the powerful.


So what can we do?  I'd say for starters we need to consolidate some good ideas into realistic experiments.  A thorough discussion about a phenomena mainstream science says is impossible would be good.  So far we have all shot a lot of blanks into the dark hoping to hit something that will magically work out they way we want it to.  I think a little more effort may be needed.  Several folks participated in the Pulse Motor Build-Off; maybe it's time for a self-runner build-off.  Time to really get serious about coming up with an energy solution.  Entries need to state their goal and the theories they will be utilizing to obtain those goals.  The final demonstration can be as such to prove or disprove those theories.  Seriously, we should do this every three months or so and really attempt to make some progress and learn from each other.  We need to pool and distribute resources--whatever it takes.  I know we can solve this riddle if we put our minds and hearts in the right place.  It just takes the commitment and the drive to get there from here.  This really is the only way I see to fight back, to give The System a run for its money.

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