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2026-06-22 12:41 UTC

@u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @jes@outerheaven.club Yes, for long Wacom also had the patent for battery-free stylus by magnetic resonance, and that's how they did monopolise the industry. Once the patent was expired, not that long ago, maybe less than 10 years, we saw many new brands arriving on this market.

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@u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing 2026-06-22 12:50

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @jes@outerheaven.club in the first few years of this century I bought a new Wacom for my artwork, a GD-0608-U which I happen to have beside me here, although it has spent the past few decades up in the attic because it is no longer supported on the Mac. However I tried it on a Linux setup a few months ago and found it’s actually not just working but working very well, with the features etc. It was my first USB Wacom, all the previous ones were ADB, and even going back as far as one which had a separate metal box with an RS-232 port and some other adaptor on it which connected to my Mac IIsi serial port back then, before ADB was a thing for tablets.

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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-06-23 06:28

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @jes@outerheaven.club Yet another example of patents making the world worse for everyone. They really have long overstayed their welcome.

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