TFB

Microsoft patents file rights management



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davek

nonsense is about it.

But I can see their commercials now, full of stupid people with no idea what permisssions are, crowing about how ms put them in because they wanted them. And being PROUD that windoze 7 was their idea.

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lordikon

Windoze?

I agree though. Patenting common sense. So if *nix has been using this for decades, but never patented it, will it now have to pay MS to use it?

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Licht

I came in expecting to reason with the open source bulldozer men. But this is going too far.

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stargate125645

I'm sure that quote was taken out of context so as to generate more uproar, and thus traffic. It wouldn't make much sense to allow the patent otherwise. Last time I checked, there was no fancy user interface for rights management in *nix, but perhaps I just always did it the old fashioned way with command line entries.

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nathris

sudo doesn't elevate rights though. It switches the user to the root account.

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TFB

While this is true, I feel as though the MS people are still biting on the *nix crowd.

davek

Well there is on mac. Either way, it's prior art, fancy user interface or otherwise, so long as there is a user interface at all.

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neurolysis

I'm not usually a FOSS commie, but this going much too far.

Good business sense by Microsoft, terrible ethics.

davek

To the roor account, from within their own login session, which means it elevates their permissions. SU, or switch user also does this.

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