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____/ JEDIDIAH on Tuesday 24 Nov 2009 15:07 : \____
> On 2009-11-24, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Erik Funkenbusch pulled this Usenet boner:
>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:58:34 -0600, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You should try looking at "news" sources other than BN. If you looked at
>>>>> actual news sources, you'd know that what Microsoft is trying to patent
>>>>> has little to do with sudo or the GNOME/KDE front ends for it. The
>>>>
>>>> ...what Microsoft is trying to patent is the conceptual equivalent. It is
>>>> what a Windows version of gksudo would need to be with the addition of one
>>>> little extra bit that's hardly inventive.
>>>
>>> Really? Of course you know better then the actual maintainer of sudo, who
>>> says something it's something totally different.
>>>
>>> You really are a genius.
>>
>> How come you bastards never offer up a quote and link?
>>
>> Lazy? Or slippery?
>
> ...quite so.
>
> This nonsense is total hearsay. This sudo guy is obviously not here
> to defend himself or keep his words from being misrepresented. OTOH, the
> trolls can't even be bothered to repeat the relevant argument or quote
> the bit of text that's supposed to be contradictory.
>
> It doesn't take a "genuis" to have a conceptual grasp of sudo.
>
> THAT is rather the whole point of this shenanigan.
>
> Microsoft is not attempting to patent any sort of "genius".
Microsoft just wants to increase patent count so that it can
intimidate/extort rivals without undoing the kimono.
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