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Microsoft was granted a patent, that basically describes the UNIX program sudo!

It's like patenting the grinding of coffee beans, before pouring hot water over them!

For those who don't know much about UNIX/Linux:

root: UNIX/Linux administrator

sudo: a small program, which purpose is to let "normal" users act as root, by "becomming" root or execute commands as root - of course root must grant you access to use the program!..

So... It seems Microsoft was granted a patent, that describes something that *NIX users has known and used for 29 years!!!!

Am I the only one, who just wants to denounce the authority of the US patents system? I mean... If somebody says to you: "you are violating our patent", I really just want to respond with: "what's that... pad-end? What is it? AND WHAT THE #@!&% ARE YOU ACTUALLY ACCUSING ME OF!?!?! VIOLATING??!?!"... And so on... you get my drift :-P

Read more:

Groklaw article

Wikipedia article on sudo