BOB:

If your software is working, the only thing you won't get now is a Live Update, which is mostly new codes for new devices. If you are a DIY, then you don't need all these codes anyway. The only codes you will need in the future are codes for a new device you purchase. Most of those codes will be on the remote, and the 850 can learn them quickly. As for the other codes, the discrete on and off codes and the discrete input codes, for example, those will probably be uploaded by some kind user as a device file, which is common now -- in fact, that's where I got most if not all of my discrete codes, often before they made it into the URC database.

In other words, the new URC policy is not all that big a deal for you, as long as users continue to share the device files they create for new equipment as it hits the market.