M$ latest innovative idea (cough)

[proalan]

I've just come across this article posted on digg.com


http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/05/did-microsoft-just-patent-sudo.html

m$ planning to patent sudo?

[DoctorMO]

Invalid, prior art stretching back to 1950s

[starcraft.man]

LOL, another patent? I read another where it said MS had patented the modular way linux works (and added DRM to it to boot)... everyone likes to patent everything, don't worry about any of it. They are all dummies.

I am still waiting for a person to get a patent on breathing, and then sue the world :)

[use a name]

Something like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1418165.stm

[starcraft.man]

ROFL! Case and point, the patent offices have no common sense or brains.

You can't patent a stupid wheel, cavemen made that, everyone knows that :p

[Sunflower1970]

Doesn't Apple use something like "sudo.."?

Isn't how sudo used under the GPL anyway...?

[EdThaSlayer]

They will never actually use that patent because the Linux organizations have a whole library of patents themselves. :)