Read up on copyright and patents: they exist to provide incentive to create, not to allow the creators to profit.
So if the ActiveX control inhibits future creations, that is enough to for we the people (through our govt.) to take stems to prevent that (in order to ensure our future well being).
Copyright and patent are not property, but special privileges granted by the government. The fact that you're using arguments from how copyright and patents work to attack actual property shows, I think, just how far off the rails the "intellectual property" advocates are taking us.
What I meant to say is that the goal of all protections granted by society (including the right to hold physical property) is based upon the assumption that the right/protection will help society in the present or the future.
Read up on copyright and patents: they exist to provide incentive to create, not to allow the creators to profit.
So if the ActiveX control inhibits future creations, that is enough to for we the people (through our govt.) to take stems to prevent that (in order to ensure our future well being).