I'm no Musk fan but he opened up all the Tesla patents so other manufacturers can use their intellectual property.

Maybe he had ulterior motives... Don't know. But opening up patents is certainly the opposite of squashing innovation.

Yes, that was my point. That Musk actively encourages other companies to share in his companies' innovations.

I am definitely no fan of Zuck but on the subject of Elon Musk, this is the same guy who tried to use his high media profile to call an innocent man a pedophile just because he would follow Musk’s crazy plan.[1]

So that another one off the “CEO billionaire but not a sociopath” list.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

I'd suggest you find a better source than The Guardian for news about Elon Musk. They have run a relentless smear campaign against him for years now. Just one more reason to loathe that publication, in my book.

Can I read about this somewhere? Did the Observer write about it?

Yeah it was really widely reported, not just in the Guardian if you don't like that paper.

Here's 4 other sources. There are many more on DuckDuckGo News.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/18/elon-mus...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44870303

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/elon-musk-apologizes-blam...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/elon-musk-apologizes-to-brit...

From CNBC:

> The apology comes after the spelunker, Vern Unsworth, who was involved in the early days of efforts to save the now-rescued boys’ soccer team, threatened legal action against the billionaire executive over the comment.

> Musk said on Twitter late Tuesday that he had made the claim out of “anger” because Unsworth had criticized his idea to rescue the boys with a “mini-submarine” made out of a SpaceX rocket part.

Sorry, I meant the smear campaign. It doesn't sound like the Guardian.