Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!

Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. Here it is, patent number7617530. 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. Here's Wikipedia's description of sudo, which you can meaningfully compare to Microsoft's description of its "invention". This is why what the US Supreme Court does about software patents means so much. Hopefully they will address the topic in their decision on Bilski. Sudo is an integral part of the functioning of GNU/Linux systems, and you use it in Mac OSX also. Maybe the Supreme Court doesn't know that, and maybe the USPTO didn't realize it. But do you believe Microsoft knows it?

Sa manje-više naprednijim funkcijama nasprem sudo-a.

Kojim manje-vise naprednijim funkcijama? Ajde da kazemo da nije ko sudo jer ima gui al' ljudi, od kada bese postoji gksu i kdesu?

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determining multiple accounts capable of permitting a task not permitted by an account of a current user wherein the determining is based on criteria comprising: frequency of use; association with the current user; and indication of sufficient but not unlimited rights; receiving indicators for the multiple accounts capable of permitting the task
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One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to present a user interface in response to a task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having a right to permit the task, the user interface comprising:

information indicating the task and an entity that attempted the task;
a selectable help graphic wherein responsive to receiving selection of the selectable help graphic, the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to present the information;
identifiers, each of the identifiers identifying other accounts having a right to permit the task, wherein the identifiers presented are based on criteria comprising:
frequency of use;
association with the user;
and indication of sufficient but not unlimited rights;
one of the identifiers identifies a higher-rights account having a right to permit the task,
wherein the one of the identifiers comprises:
a graphic identifying the higher-rights accounts associated with the user;
and a name of the higher-rights account;
an authenticator region capable of receiving, from the user, an authenticator usable to authenticate the higher-rights account having the right to permit the task, wherein:
the authenticator comprises a password, and the authenticator region comprises a data-entry field configured to receive the password.

a graphic identifying the higher-rights accounts associated with the user;
and a name of the higher-rights account;