When can you trust the government not to abuse this ? You mention possible protection for corporations which I'm all for, but a patent is a patent and does not show their intent. As far as I know, they still have to protect their patent, preventing other companies (or ME) from using it.. or license the technology.. and if they license it for revenue, where's my cut ? This is crap without them showing the intentions of this patent.. anything that the government has a patent on should be usable by ANYONE, any CITIZEN, and any coporations for any reason.
For the people, by the people. We own anything the government does, or at least we should.
Yes it does. I have ATT Digital Cable, it uses the IR outputs from the Tivo and changes the channel just fine. Although, sometimes it won't change, but that's rare.
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When can you trust the government not to abuse this ? You mention possible protection for corporations which I'm all for, but a patent is a patent and does not show their intent. As far as I know, they still have to protect their patent, preventing other companies (or ME) from using it.. or license the technology.. and if they license it for revenue, where's my cut ? This is crap without them showing the intentions of this patent.. anything that the government has a patent on should be usable by ANYONE, any CITIZEN, and any coporations for any reason.
For the people, by the people. We own anything the government does, or at least we should.
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Yes it does. I have ATT Digital Cable, it uses the IR outputs from the Tivo and changes the channel just fine. Although, sometimes it won't change, but that's rare.