Microsoft Patents the "sudo" command

[mike.mikemiller at gmail.com (Michael Miller)]

It will be interesting when M$ goes to court and tries to enforce
this.  I didn't look at the URL was it dated April 1st by any chance?

-mmiller

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, David A. Gershman
<dagershman_dgt at dagertech.net> wrote:
> To be legal, I just removed all 'sudo' existence from my Linux boxes.
> From now on, I'll boot into Windows and double click my 'sudo' icon and
> provide:
>
> ?- the OS to boot into (though only Window 7 and above are allowed)
> ?- the command to execute (properly corrected by M$ spell and
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?grammar check.)
> ?- the user to execute as (corrected to 'administrator')
> ?- and the password (shown in the clear, of course)
>
> After "completion", I'll get a dialog box with title 'Error' and text
> 'Error'.
>
> "Microsoft. Where do you want to go...oh nevermind, we'll decide."
>
> > Website: http://gizmodo.com/5402796/microsoft-patents-the-sudo-command
> > Patent:
> http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,617,530.PN.&OS=PN/7,617,530&RS=PN/7,617,530
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