Hello Stephen,
Monday, August 23, 2004, 12:30:38 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Microsoft has patented the technology behind sudo.
>>
>> Wonder if they will have any issues hiding the prior art on this one.
SK> Is it not heir apparent that they're goig to wage war against OSS with a
SK> patent portfolio
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 20:19, franki wrote:
> Have you guys seen this yet?
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,775,781.WKU.&OS=PN/6,775,781&RS=PN/6,775,781
>
> Microsoft has patented the technology behind sudo.
*The* technology or *their* technology?
Their real problem shall indeed be hiding the opensource projects which won't work either since patents do not overrule GPL /
LGPL policies.
Dunno if sudo sources are LGPL, in that case they are allowed to keep their project closed source (as i would not ex
