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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. Re:A brief history of SUDO by Pieroxy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Either you are stupid or trolling. The government cannot check for prior art on every patent filed ever. It would raise the cost so much for new patents that the patents would be even more out of reach. And I'm sure you would be the first one to come and whine.

    No, a better solution should be: Make filing a patent that is obviously bullshit a criminal offense. Something big with prison sentences, so that people will do their own research. At least, you must store the research for prior art somewhere to be able to produce it in a court of law.

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