alt Hacker NewsIf you want people to copy it, but want a 20 year temporary monopoly, you can publish an open source step-by-step guide for someone to recreate what you’re doing with the patent office.
If you want people to copy it, but want a 20 year temporary monopoly, you can publish an open source step-by-step guide for someone to recreate what you’re doing with the patent office.
The patents are effectively unenforcible. People stopped patenting frontier computer science research 20 years ago. That is the current reality.