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Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior

Posted by timothy on from the rusty-shotgun's-right-twice-a-day dept.

Foofoobar writes "Just when you thought all was safe on the crazy patent front, Microsoft has come out of the obvious patent closet to file patent number 7617530, which basically duplicates the functionality of 'sudo' which is found in all Linux systems. PJ over at groklaw has a wonderful writeup on the entire fiasco."

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  1. Wah! Wah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We, the stupid open source hippies, are too dumb to patent something.
    WWWAAAAHHHHH!!!

  2. Re:Penalties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How noble of you to want to pass laws that could potentially cripple a company for slight over sights. Maybe we should be allowed to review your private life and decide what is a legitimate error and what is you just being [lazy/cheap/copping out] and just throw a whimsical penalty at you. How does that sound?

    Or can we use common sense here and determine the nature of potentially fraudulent claims and determine penalties from there?

    According to a couple of posts that have already come out this patent isn't what you think it appears to be but, oh well, to hell with the facts... let's just get back to our daily two minutes of hate to make you feel better about whatever it is you feel inadequate about.

  3. So what, they can have it. by smoker2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    sudo is shit. What is the point anyway ? Either you've got root, or you assume it with sudo and have exactly the same privileges.

    sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option was specified). If the invoking user is root or if the target user is the same as the invoking user, no pass- word is required.

  4. Re:This is why software patents shouldn't be allow by CajunArson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thanks for telling us that those claims are too complicated for you to read. Please make sure to put that on your resume, because if I was a potential employer looking to hire you for anything even remotely technical, I'd want to know that you give up whenever a discussion gets remotely above the complexity of "M$ sux0rz."

    Anyone else like PinkDead, please post too so we can winnow the chaff.

    --
    AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
  5. Re:I know how we will get them! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You bitches can't get even the smallest problems resolved. Keep dreaming and running your mouth while others kick you in your ass. That's how a loser lives.