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Re: MS Word problem

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"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in
news:isv6bl$osg$1@dont-email.me: 

> I see that Micro$oft have been caught thieving again! The
> evil bastards attempt to screw everybody into the ground by
> aggressively attempting to patent just about everything
> they do, often including things they have themselves
> previously stolen, and yet when they want to include somone
> else's work into their own bloatware they just go ahead and
> steal it. They have in recent years been caught behaving
> like coporate gansters in Jamaica and now they have been
> caught stealing stuff from Canada. What a bunch of 
> unprincipled bastards! 
> 
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-must-pay-copyright-cash-0
> 84855404.html 

Actually, s/w patent are ridiculous and the entire system 
needs to be overhauled for the computer industry.

There are almost no *truly* innovative ideas anymore, and some 
companies buy & apply for and receive patents as their main 
business now.

The system is ocmpletely broken.....

Take this for example.... http://arstechnica.com/open-
source/news/2009/11/microsofts-psuedo-sudo-patent-doesnt-
really-cover-sudo.ars

....while the initial reaction across the open source & linux 
communities was appauled that MS was able to 'patent' the SUDO 
command, which was mistakn, I see nothing innovative in the 
nature of what this patent really covers.....

What it covers is when elevated rightas are needed to do 
something, the OS will show you a GUI of all users that have 
admin rights, so you can pick it off a list, instead of having 
to type in a user name.

That's it, in a nutshell.

Forgive me if I'm simplfying this, but isn't this just a 
database lookup table ?

I mean, really, the OS will look through the registry (or 
wherever this info is stored), filter out which don't have 
admin rights, and then present them to you in a box which you 
can scroll up or down to highlight the one you want to select, 
and prese enter.

This certainly isn't anything 'innovative'.

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