[aklug] Re: Ought to be fun - Microsoft has patented "sudo"

I'm not enough of a lawyer to quite get a handle on everything Groklaw
was saying about it, but I did also have the impression that they think
the patent covers sudo itself.

I would have thought "prior art" would have killed the patent on it's
face, but I've already learned that what looks like prior art to me
doesn't necessarily qualify as prior art in the minds of the patent
lawyers.

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:38 -0900, Christopher Howard wrote:
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> Jim Gribbin wrote:
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> > Jim G
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> Well, just when I thought no stupidity in the world could surprise me,
> the scumbags at Microsoft pull it off.
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> But, the important question: are they trying to patent sudo itself, or
> an interface on top of it? These guys seems to be saying they are
> actually trying to patent sudo itself:
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> http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/05/did-microsoft-just-patent-sudo.html
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> If that is the case, then they will be blown to pieces at the first
> lawsuit, right, since sudo has long been under a BSD-style license?
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> Christopher Howard
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