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Scenario

How to handle patent requests based on open source ideas

My employer wants to patent an algorithm I developed using ideas from open source research and I feel complicit in turning shared knowledge into private property.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation of common wisdom into private property corrupts both giver and receiver.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Open source as philosophy?”

Peri

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