Intellectual Property and Skating... LOCALS ONLY!

When skateboarding started en masse (in different pockets across the US in the mid 70's) as more than just a novelty item, and people began to skate manmade items and find the joy in gleaming, people began to treat some of this property as "theirs." This created problems with skaters - groups of skaters and other groups of skaters would come to fight with each other as if they were gangs (Thrashin' is mandatory viewing, Romeo and Juliet set with skateboards).
Today, this still happens. People argue with each other about what "spot" belongs to who. I'll agree - sometimes there are secret plots you want to keep to yourself. But in a world of millions of people, and more importantly, living in a country like the US, people are going to come, and find what you have found. Sometimes they'll find the same place or start developing the same style as you, right around the same time, devoid of contact with you. But some people will take it personally, even though it has nothing to do with them.
How does play into technology? Technology is much like style (an idea visualized) or spots (the idea of property). Sometimes, technologies are developed simultaneously. Sometimes not. Ideas can be built upon - if we didn't have the black and white tube TV, we'd never have our flatscreen plasmas. If a skater takes your trick, gets used to it, and then builds upon it, that's progress.
What's my point? Let's all relax a little bit about ideas - they should be shared, and built upon, instead of hoarded. Because when people take things too seriously, ideas - like spots, styles, or entire sports - can be stifled.