In all fairness, as longs as patents exist you simply can't "open up" a piece of technology That's not true at all. Divulging data without offering license ter

In all fairness, as longs as patents exist you simply can't "open up" a piece of technology That's not true at all. Divulging data without offering license terms does nothing to hurt your ability to enforce intellectual property rights. The people using that data just do so knowing they're technically breaking the law. Patents are not trademarks.