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A patent is license to be a dick. If you’re not going to be a dick, you don’t bother with the license in the first place.

Unless you’re trying to protect yourself from somebody else patenting it and being a dick.

You don't need to patent something to prevent somebody else from doing it. Just make it public and prior art applies.

Prior art only applies if the USPTO agrees to review the patent and the examiner considers it prior art; neither of these are guaranteed.

Does patenting it yourself put you in a better spot than having blatant prior art?