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mc32 on Aug 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arm China Has Gone Rogue

Patents expire, after that you're free to use them. Trade secrets are another thing...

But, this framework did not exist before the XVII and XVIII centuries. So anything beyond that time frame is moot.

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