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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: WMD on 21 August 2004, 08:27

Title: USPTO goes crazy again: MS patents a "sudo"-equivalent
Post by: WMD on 21 August 2004, 08:27

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/20/221230.shtml?tid=155&tid=172 (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/20/221230.shtml?tid=155&tid=172)

It gets scarier all the time.

[ August 20, 2004: Message edited by: WMD ]

Title: USPTO goes crazy again: MS patents a "sudo"-equivalent
Post by: Refalm on 21 August 2004, 16:01

I guess Microsoft is trying to get root access to all *NIX boxes.

Title: USPTO goes crazy again: MS patents a "sudo"-equivalent
Post by: zao on 23 August 2004, 21:37

Hence the reason why software patent must be banned and scrapped altogether.