Facebook showed plans last week for drone aircraft that beam lasers conveying high-speed data to remote parts of the world.
As powerful as that sounds, Facebook already has something that could be even more potent: a huge sharing of its once-proprietary information, the kind of thing that would bring a traditional Silicon Valley patent lawyer to tears.
Image: Computer servers in a Facebook facility in Lulea, Sweden. Facebook has shared designs for data storage, computer servers, and rack designs, among other hardware. ERIC RISBERG / ASSOCIATED PRESS
