Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoYSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1375file-text
arrow-up1375external-linkYSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.en.wikipedia.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day agoThey’ll suppress it unless they can make money off it like crypto or “AI”.
minus-squaresurvirtual@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·17 hours agoBitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason. The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins. This strategy is the way.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 hours agoYo. Thanks for curing me of my ignorance, i had no idea. I’m going to have to read more about this! I always thought crypto was cool in theory, unfortunate the state of its practice.
They’ll suppress it unless they can make money off it like crypto or “AI”.
Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.
The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.
This strategy is the way.
Yo.
Thanks for curing me of my ignorance, i had no idea. I’m going to have to read more about this! I always thought crypto was cool in theory, unfortunate the state of its practice.