"Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, has signed away several of his patents on infrared control technologies to General Magic" "We find that a phone link is

"Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, has signed away several of his patents on infrared control technologies to General Magic" "We find that a phone link is actually faster than IR! The poor IR performance is particularly wounding to Woz, who signed away his IR patents and technology to General Magic." a lot of bug discussion and ignoring Woz "Wozniak is visibly upset that the product has not been fixed and that the stock market is so gullible. Perhaps be is also miffed that be was not even offered stock for his gift of the IR patents some three years ago." If they treated Woz they way this article says, then I cannot help but think they were probably going to fail. Its a true shame because I still think agents would be a very interesting way to organize programs even though the remote communication part has been taken over by http-based APIs.