New Scientist: "Yesterday," writes Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a blog post, "there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology." In short, California-based Tesla is opening up its patents to competitors. Like so many of Musk's ideas, it sounds crazy but might just be brilliant. Tesla, Musk explains, was founded with the goal of taking electric...