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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.

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

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“Where Are You with Open source as philosophy?”

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