And what Elon said down there is, he said, look, this stuff, I assume everyone will steal everything, but by the time they steal, it will be five generations beyond and it won't matter. Yes. At Tesla, we actually open sourced a lot of patents. So we said our patents are. Anyone can use them for free. Really? Yeah. We only do patents at Tesla to avoid patent trolls causing trouble. So we'll try to look ahead, say, okay, patent trolls are going to file patents to block certain things. (21:27–21:33)
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Asserts that Tesla has open-sourced many of its patents for free use.
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