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Skylink Survives

Jesse Walker | 9.1.2004 9:47 AM

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The courts have brought back a decision in the Skylink case, an important intellectual-property skirmish involving garage-door openers. (And you thought all the copyright wars were over Buffy fan fiction!) Ernest Miller discusses the details of the case here, and has a roundup of other commentary here.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. dan   21 years ago

    watching the dust settle on a country road after a truck drives by

    Wish that was all I had to do...

    It might make a nice screen saver...

  2. Dash   21 years ago

    Off-topic: It's been bugging me for several years now. How do you pronounce "Nozick", as in the last name of the famous libertarian philosopher?

    I've heard "No-zick," "Notch-ick," and "Noz-ick".

  3. Gary Gunnels   21 years ago

    Beware!!! Skylink is obviously a precursor to the dreaded Sky Net!!! 🙂

  4. Jesse Walker   21 years ago

    Still thinking about Arnold's speech last night, eh Gary?

    Dash: I've always pronounced it "Nose ick," with the emphasis on the "No."

  5. Highway   21 years ago

    Jesse, I hope that gets better soon for you. I know that Nose Ick can be tough to get rid of. 😉

  6. Gary Gunnels   21 years ago

    Jesse Walker,

    Actually, I haven't watched even a smidgen of the RNC.

    Full Disclosure: I watched Howard Dean during the DNC because I wondered if he would howl again.

    The conventions (as they are presented on TV at least) are about as interesting as watching the dust settle on a country road after a truck drives by. 🙂

  7. R C Dean   21 years ago

    watching the dust settle on a country road after a truck drives by

    Good times, good times.

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