[olug] Get this, Microsoft has a patent on sudo

[William Haisch]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:00 AM, olug-request at olug.org wrote:
> i would think Microsoft's patent on su / sudo is unwise and will
> probably come back to bite them.
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390

Way back in 2000, Brian Hill released a program for Mac OS X called
"Pseudo" that was a drag-n-drop-launch-as-admin program, essentially
a graphical user interface for the "sudo" command. I wonder if
Microsoft were aware?  Would this count as prior art?

Pseudo for OS X:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html

-Wm.