[osdcmy-public] Re: M$ patent SUDO.. so what now? ( for those who use sudo as their administration tools )

2009-11-17 Terurut Topik ng swee meng
Not just that, lets not hope that they are doing something stupid like, supporting 3 strike law, or support DRM On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 20:10 +0800, E A Faisal wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah rajaiskand...@gmail.com wrote: the only way that a software

[osdcmy-public] Re: M$ patent SUDO.. so what now? ( for those who use sudo as their administration tools )

2009-11-16 Terurut Topik Harisfazillah Jamel
su - . Used before sudo. Systems and/or methods are described that enable a user to elevate his or her rights. In one embodiment, these systems and/or methods present a user interface identifying an account having a right to permit a task in response to the task being prohibited based on a

[osdcmy-public] Re: M$ patent SUDO.. so what now? ( for those who use sudo as their administration tools )

2009-11-16 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
the only way that a software can be patented in malaysia if it is an embedded algorithm in an appliance or gadget. something like if the algorithm becomes part of the circuits. else software patents and business method patents are not recognised in malaysia. malaysia is a member of the

[osdcmy-public] Re: M$ patent SUDO.. so what now? ( for those who use sudo as their administration tools )

2009-11-15 Terurut Topik E A Faisal
Crap! What now? Guess we need a biometric retinal-scan-based GUI sudo :P On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah trunas...@gmail.comwrote: taken from link sent by Syazwan, TQ dude..