[zachruss92]

I know this is a tactic Elon has definitely used before - i.e. hats and flamethrowers to fund the Boring company.

I can't find the source because Google is a bit biased towards giving me articles about yesterday's launch but I know at a press conference w/ NASA Elon stated the technology they're developing for NASA should not be considered proprietary and that NASA could do what they wanted with it. With that being said, the Falcon 9 designs have to be SpaceX's IP.