That is part of his strategy, by publishing the ideas in his blog the ideas are now in the public domain and therefore not patentable. IBM used to publish a qu

That is part of his strategy, by publishing the ideas in his blog the ideas are now in the public domain and therefore not patentable. IBM used to publish a quarterly magazine with details of inventions they didn't think worthy of patenting so that others then could not patent them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bulletin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Technical_Disclosure_Bullet...