Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. Here it is, patent number 7617530. Thanks, USPTO, for giving Microsoft, which is already a monopoly, a monopoly on something that's been in use since 1980 and wasn't invented by Microsoft.
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Bilski Hearing Starts Well for Abolishers of Software Patents
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Early reports suggest that judges are hostile towards abstract patents like Bilski's
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Bilski hearing implications for software patents
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An analysis by End Software Patents of what the Judges' statements at Monday's Bilski hearing say about patenting software ideas.
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"Intellectual Property" a Violation of Real Property
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Pretending that ownership of software is possible and thus trying to enforce this ownership (as copyright and patent laws do) actually leads us to violations of actual physical property.
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Joseph Stiglitz on Why TRIPS (Patents) is Like Murder
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In a talk about intellectual monopolies, Joseph Stiglitz explains what those trade provisions really are about
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Microsoft’s Software Patents Racket Against GNU/Linux Tightens Further
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Companies that screw Free software by paying Microsoft for unnamed software patents grow even closer to Microsoft
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Microsoft Patent Traps and the Possible Looming End of Software Patents
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How Microsoft uses ActiveSync to shut out Free software with software patents; OOXML patents and other issues revisited; Bilski to be revisited by the Supremes, who can axe software patents in the United States
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The Price of Mono
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Follow-up to yesterday's post about the (il)legality of Mono and some new cautionary tales
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Mono and Fraud
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One reader's thoughts about the spreading of Mono inside GNU/Linux
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Software Patents Are Killing ZFS
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ZFS as a good example of wonderful software that gets sidelined due to obsession with intellectual monopolies
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In re Bilski - Let us get back to work
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The case known as "In re bilski" has the potential to go some way towards righting some of the wrongs of the patent industry, while coincidently, transforming the prospects for innovation in the information and software industries.
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Refutation of Mono disinformation about Banshee being a GNOME project without associated issues
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Final Bilski Briefs Filed - Microsoft, Google, FFII, ABA, etc.
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More intriguing Bilski briefs filed. The door is shut now, so there will be no more, I gather. Both the ABA and Patently O have them all listed, and the latter includes a helpful brief blurb giving an outline of the theme of each. So read them all if you wish.
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Richard Stallman’s Message to Brazil
De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents
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Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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