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anon answered on 14 Jun 2015:
No, since any ideas I have about improvements to products should belong to the whole community. Patents may be a good way of protecting intellectual ideas and potentially licensing fees for others to use your ideas. My own belief is to publish these ideas and make it available for the wider to the whole community free of charge.
Tim Berners-Lee (a physicist who worked as a software engineer at CERN) if he had patented the internet protocols he would nave been very rich by now, but the internet would potentially only be available to academics or to companies who can afford to pay the licensing fees. Since he made it available to the world free of charge, its use has spread from the academic community to a world wide industry.
Similarly to Linus Torvalds who made available the Linux kernels available to the software community under the GNU license model. Linux operating system is found as the operating system in your internet routers, internet of all things (i.e. smart TVs, smart fridges). No to mention its the operating system of choice for the Raspberry Pi computers found in schools. Last and not least the Android OS for 70-80% of all mobile phones and tablet computers run on the Linux kernel originally started by Linus Torvalds.
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