The Fraud of Intellectual Property -- Patents

[vulgus]

An attractive aspect of the bitcoin community is its focus on open source and anti-IP. It seems to me to be shifting toward patents and trademarks. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-fraud-of-intellectual-property/ 

"The Fraud of Intellectual Property." https://news.bitcoin.com/the-fraud-of-intellectual-property
Excerpt: Copyright. Patent. Trademark. None of these concepts apply comfortably to Bitcoin which was forged in open source and plunked into the public domain to function as a collaborative venture. Intellectual property (IP) itself seems antiquated in the Internet Age with gluts of free data just a Bittorrent away. But IP is an active issue within the crypto-community, especially regarding customized blockchains in which there is tremendous potential for profit.

[Syke]

"Bitcoin which was forged in open source and plunked into the public domain"

Correction, bitcoin is available under the MIT license. It is not public domain.