Showing unbelievable balls by MS, incredible incompetency by the US Patent Office, and why software patents are such a manifestly bad idea, MS has managed to patent a method of privilege escalation commonly known among almost all *NIX users since almost the inception of *NIX as sudo.

Groklaw – Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!.

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