[OT] Software patents for the obvious (and not so obvious)

[David A. Bandel]

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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:28:42 +0200
Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:

> ... navigating among hyperlinks via tab key:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,785,865.WKU.&OS=PN/6,785,865&RS=PN/6,785,865
> 
> Not so ridiculous and more annoying is Microsoft's attempt to patent
> and lycence "Sender ID", proposed to the IETF as an anti-spam security
> 
> standard, see eg.
> http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040904
> Klaus
> 

- From the same company that recently applied for a patent for "sudo" --
at least, their description of privilege elevation via a database for
specific programs sounds _exactly_ like what sudo has done for something
around 20 years now.

If you can't buy it, patent everything around it till it can't innovate
(or even do things its been doing for over 20 years now) -- and the
current patent system and folks involved with are M$' best friends.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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