Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)
Posted Nov 12, 2009 21:26 UTC (Thu) by
NAR (subscriber, #1313)
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Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw) by DOT
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Microsoft Patents Sudo?!! (Groklaw)
I'm a bit curious though why Microsoft would feel the need to patent this.
It's probably not "Microsoft", but some software research/development group in Microsoft. One of the performance metrics used on such group could be "number of patents/year", so they try to patent every idea. Also, the individual researcher/developer might get a bonus for every patent.
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