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Microsoft granted a patent on 30 year old UNIX technology!..?!.. :-?
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
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Patents revisited...
O.k... Here we go again...
Just had to add this link.
Facebook is being sued for patent infringements...
They have created a social network!!!
Oh! Aaaand... You can decide who can view your profile!!! Those bastards!..
That's it!.. I'm filing for a patent called: "a structured way of bothering, annoying and pestering people"...
Then... I'm gonna sue any patent office I can find! :-D
Patents explained...
Hmmm....
I just read this cnet story about Eolas suing Microsoft, amongst others, for using what appears to be "AJAX"...
What the f@#%!
Let me try to explain US patents, as I have come to understand them recently...
I will try to do this using an analogy:
You are building a house...
Somebody sees this and while you are away, takes a shit in your toilet, while documenting it thoroughly...
And from now on... You'll have to pay this jerk, every time you have to take a shit...
After all... He can prove, he was the first one to take a shit in your toilet!!!
Seriously!
This is what the entire Eoala vs. Microsoft and other are all about!
Microsoft build a browser, with some function and enterpreters (i.e. you can shit in it and flush).
Then some idiot comes along and proves that it works... Now he wants Microsoft to for it!?!?!?
What beats me the most, though... Is that this can happen in the US... I mean... They're the once that makes it o.k. to shoot someone who invades your private property... Think about it!..
Shouldn't it be o.k. for Microsoft to shoot somebody here???
Well enough about that... Just had to get this out of my head! ;-)
