Tag: open source
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Gives Up Royalties On Great Telephone Invention
Major George Owen Squier gave the world a gift with one invention, and a decade later invented a technology which would become the butt of jokes. First, he invented the multiplex telephone. That’s the technology which allows several conversations to be carried simultaneously on the same wire without crossover. Instead of profiting from this invention, […]
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Inventors Who Take No Profits From Their Work
Fans and practitioners of open source intellectual property and creative commons licensing can look to these inventors as their predecessors in spirit. Each of them donated their inventions to the public. In fact, if you look at the patent for Logan Waller Page’s new form of concrete, discussed in this article, you will see that […]