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 <[email protected]> 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 > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> >> > > ---------------------------------------- > David A. Gershman > [email protected] > http://dagertech.net/gershman/ > "It's all about the path!" --d. gershman > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
