After Lin Qi arranged for people to keep an eye on the Plumber Killer, he stopped monitoring the matter himself.
As long as the man lost patience and committed another crime, Lin Qi would definitely know whether he was the "Plumber Killer."
Less than two days after dinner, Gladstone called Lin Qi to discuss the matter.
The Short, Fat Mr. was willing to reconcile with Lin Qi. Anyone could use the patent technologies Lin Qi had listed unconditionally, without paying the Northern Industrial Group any licensing fees for using them.
In the industrial system, research and development had always been at the forefront. It blocked many people from entering the industry and forced companies in many fields to bow their heads to them.
These were the Core Patents, such as some of the engine core technologies Lin Qi had demanded be made public.
These core technologies were called "core," but that did not mean they were technologies currently used by the Northern Industrial Group. Rather, their importance lay in their "foundational nature."
They might not be advanced and could even have fallen many generations behind, but their foundational nature and the barriers built around those foundations were the truly troublesome things.
It was like someone inventing clothes first and registering a patent for them. From then on, no matter what materials people used to make clothes, they would have to pay for the patent.
The patent holder might even prohibit others from making clothes. They had that right.
At that point, people either had to switch industries and start over, bow to the rule-makers and merge with them while using their basic patents, or directly design a patent for dresses to circumvent the clothing patent and its barriers.
For example, the patent barrier for "having two sleeves."
But not everyone