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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by worik on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:39PM (#43404009)
IP laws are not all or nothing. It is possible to have property law that allows the good things (personal property, rewards for innovation) without the bad (market domination, monopoly and oligopoly)

We have not tried, and it is not due to "we the people" it is due to "them our overlords"

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by 9rx on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:55PM (#43404241)
> it is due to "them our overlords"

Funny enough, the state of intellectual property tends to be much more relaxed where overlords are actually found (e.g. China). It's easy when one guy can make things so. Far less easy when you have millions upon millions of people afraid that any change will impact them personally.

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