Libertarian Party of Colorado First to Officially Support Ending IP
IP has always rubbed me as preoccupied with protecting a past instead of forging a future.<p>An effective monopoly over customers should be won through superior products in the marketplace, not by inferior products defended in the courts.<p>Even when it&#x27;s a superior product, often covetous protectors of excessive demands and restrictions hamper and kill it. Media formats, software, vehicle technology, the graveyard of brilliant products by petty tyrants zealously destroying their dreams through their own stubbornness is vast and depressing.<p>I&#x27;m glad Apple knocked off Xerox, Tim Berners Lee knocked off Ted Nelson, and Linus knocked off a bunch of groups. I&#x27;m glad Encyclopedia Britannica didn&#x27;t have IP rights to shut down wikipedia and W3Catalog, the first search engine wasn&#x27;t going around knocking off Yahoo, Alta Vista and Google when they came around.<p>I don&#x27;t expect wide agreement with this, that&#x27;s why I&#x27;m saying it.