{"id":102,"date":"2009-11-12T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/mircrooft-at-it-again-patents-sudo\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T05:05:41","slug":"mircrooft-at-it-again-patents-sudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/mircrooft-at-it-again-patents-sudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mircro$oft at it again &#8212; patents SUDO &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not know what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sudo\">SUDO<\/a> is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy.&nbsp; If you use Linux and\/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis.&nbsp; It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a short while to do things like installing software. <\/p>\n<p>Now Microsoft got it right to patent this. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Just when you thought all was safe on the crazy patent front, Microsoft has come out of the obvious patent closet to file <a href=\"http:\/\/patft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/srchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=7,617,530.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/7,617,530&amp;RS=PN\/7,617,530\">patent number 7617530<\/a>, which basically duplicates the functionality of &#8216;sudo&#8217; which is found in all Linux systems. PJ over at groklaw has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20091111094923390\">a wonderful writeup on the entire fiasco<\/a>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><br \/><\/i>I went to look and saw that the patent date back to only 2005.&nbsp; SUDO has been in existence since the 1980&#8217;s. This just shows how screwed up the US Patent Office is.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/patent\" rel=\"tag\">patent<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sudo\" rel=\"tag\">sudo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not know what SUDO is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy.&nbsp; If you use Linux and\/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis.&nbsp; It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-patent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}