Thread: MicroSoft is at it again, trying to to patent Sudo this time

Quote from: antimatter15 on Yesterday at 09:20:08 AM Quote from: ariarinen on November 13, 2009, 03:08:40 AM Well you can always try, but sudo is a 30 some year old invention it can't be patented.   There are tons of times when patents are granted despite massive prior art. like the page up and page down key  that the very same company registered despite there being keyboards using it years earlier than Microsoft

yea but imagine if every OS supporter programmer owner etc dumped in 10+ bucks to battle MS... MS would lose as their is millions of supporters and many fairly well off... so some might even put in a few gs MS would need to spend all their money to just to try to fight them off... but in the end they would win (usually the case when the other side has tons of money)

Yes. Cancel or allow?

Bilski ftw

Quote from: antimatter15 on Yesterday at 09:20:08 AM Quote from: ariarinen on November 13, 2009, 03:08:40 AM Well you can always try, but sudo is a 30 some year old invention it can't be patented.   There are tons of times when patents are granted despite massive prior art. Well they can issue a patent but wont hold up in court, so no big deal. And if they do their job at the patent office they decline the patent...

They're slowly creating all of these ridiculous patents to try and force all computers out of existence except for MS licensed ones.