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Groklaw going downhill...Groklaw going downhill...Posted Nov 12, 2009 18:03 UTC (Thu) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)In reply to: Groklaw going downhill... by dw Parent article: Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)
The thing is, patents are supposed to be non-obvious to a reasonably skilled practitioner of the arts. People have been adding guis to things for years. Does that mean that adding a gui to sudo makes it patentable?
Note: I haven't read the patent. But if it's just adding a gui, IMO it should not be patentable; furthermore our sudo does have a gui, at least, in Linux I never use command-line sudo but rather the KDE graphical tool that elevates my privileges when I run a control panel applet or something similar.
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