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Elon Musk on how Tesla and SpaceX have helped their competitors: “Nothing any of my companies have done has been to stifle competition. In fact, we've done the opposite. At Tesla, we have open-sourced our patents. Anyone can use our patents for free. How many companies do you know that have done that? Can you name one? I can't. At SpaceX, we don't use patents. So I mean, once in a while we'll file a patent just so some patent troll doesn't cause trouble. But we're not stopping, we've done nothing anti-competitive. Some companies have done anti-competitive things. At Tesla, we have made our Supercharger system open access. We made our charger technology available for free to the other manufacturers. No walled garden. We could have put a wall up, but instead we invited them in.” From: New York Times DealBook Summit, November 29, 2023