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Microsoft nicks another man's patents
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| SOFTWARE MONOPOLIST Microsoft seems to be
| patenting stuff like crazy.
|
| Volish employees Samuel Chow Radakovitz,
| Adam Michael Buerman, Anupam Garg, Matthew
| John Androski, Matthew Kevin Becker and
| Brian Ruble apparently had a brillian
| insight one morning and got patent
| 20090282325.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1562851/microsoft-nicks-patents
Re Here we Go Again
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| As I read it, Microsoft have obtained the
| patent on Sudo itself but they have also
| added, or propose to add a GUI.
|
| Either way, surely Sudo is protected by the
| GNU licence and prior art. Bolting on a GUI
| must, for sure, be an infringement of the
| licence. That is unless they continue to
| licence under the GNU.
|
| Why do Microsoft want Sudo anyway, that's
| an interesting question.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39877957-39001068c-20105424o,00.htm
Chinese Court Rules Against Microsoft In IP Case
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/chinese-court-rules-against-microsoft-in-ip-case-2504
Internet Governance Forum 2009 - II
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| As the head of the Jordan Open Source
| Association I have also asked with others,
| about the openness and royalty-free policy
| of the foundation. We got very assuring
| answers as well as plans to promote open
| content by the foundation, Stephane Boyera
| wrote:
|
| Another key discussion was around
| intellectual property, and the
| importance of open source and free
| content, not only at the tools level,
| but also in the different materials and
| tools developed by the thousands of
| projects in the field. This is an area
| we will surely investigate further.
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http://jordanopensource.org/blog/internet-governance-forum-2009-ii
Recent:
MS patent looks just like Unix command, critics howl
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| Microsoft's patent comes as the US Supreme
| Court wrestles with the issue of business
| methods, such as those included in software,
| and whether they qualify for patent
| protection. Critics contend only physical
| inventions should be eligible, while a large
| swath of technology companies maintain that
| software-driven features such as Amazon's
| one-click checkout and Priceline's reverse
| auctions are fair game.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/12/microsoft_patents_sudo/
Did Microsoft just patent sudo?
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| 1985, huh? And when did this Microsoft patent happen? It was filed in
| 2000. Well gee, that doesn't make sense. How'd they get the patent?
| It certainly falls under the category of "obvious" if there's prior
| art such as sudo.
|
| What makes this whole thing funny, though, is something I saw a couple
| days ago. Head over to Builder-AU and listen to Peter Watson from
| Microsoft. He says,
|
| "User Account Control is a great idea and strategically
| a direction that sort of all operating systems and all technology
| should be heading down"
|
| Excuse me? Does he really believe this is all Microsoft's great new
| idea?
|
| In the end, this seems like a patent that Microsoft will hold up and
| say "we have a patent and Linux is violating it!" They won't ever
| sue on it though (just leave the threat hanging to scare away
| potential users), because then they could have the patent revoked.
| It's better for them to just wave it around.
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http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/05/did-microsoft-just-patent-sudo.html
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