> GS thinks they will make more money on their own when they built up a nice patent portfolio in this space. So instead of contributing back to the community o

> GS thinks they will make more money on their own when they built up a nice patent portfolio in this space. So instead of contributing back to the community on a openly-developed technology (not talking about R3, but Satoshi's blockchain concept), they could decide that the best course of action is to patent encumber the shit out of it!