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Skylink garage door opener

Well, it's a start: it was ruled today that Skylink successfully defended itself from the DCMA-wielding Chamberlain. If you're not familiar with the case, Skylink, who manufactures 3rd party garage door openers, reverse-engineered Chamberlain's garage door devices and made their own universal openers for Chamberlain's equipment (think universal remotes for garage doors). Of course, this is a very good thing that we're not all of a sudden copyrighting things like garage door openers; but you have to wonder why Chamberlain would care, since you still have to buy their garage doors to begin with.