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Microsoft Patents sudo

Posted by michael on from the you're-just-mad-you-didn't-think-of-it-first dept.

Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."

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  1. HAH by Transcendent · · Score: -1, Redundant

    HAHAHHAAHAA

    I'm sorry, but that's just frekin funny. Way to go to microcrap for their originality.

    Is it to late to patent the keyboard? Or how about a method of communicating user interaction on one electronic device to a seperate entity, either via wire or wireless connection. A.K.A, a frekin keyboard.

  2. hummm sounds fishy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sounds like they just patented programing actions that can only be done under an admiastrator log in.
    Guess the Patent Office has never heard of Linux or Unix.

    Tetalon

  3. Re:Prior Art? by krayfx · · Score: -1, Redundant

    prior art.