DIYson lamp hides cables between the seams
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I thought supposedly the whole point of patents was to make the information regarding an invention available in exchange for a time limited monopoly on profiting from said invention, not to make the information radioactive for the period.
Similarly, to how some codecs are patent encumbered yet we still have open source implementations of said codecs.
In practice however, many patents never brought riches to the inventor and instead stalled progress for the duration.
Is this project just a case of the chilling effect of patents?