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4 Sep 2024 19:21:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Yet another reason why they shouldn't grant software patents  
From: Warp
Date: 17 Nov 2009 19:21:52
Message: <4b033e20@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Which doesn't happen with sudo, since there's only one privileged account.

  Actually you can create different accounts in unix, which may belong to
different groups which have different access privileges, and then you can
use sudo to perform a command with the privileges of any of those accounts
(not just the root account).

  (Granted, I don't know if graphical sudos allow you to do this in any
system, but at least the command-line version does.)

> Remember, it's not "graphical sudo". It's *everything* in the entire claim.

  Wouldn't be the first time that patent infringement has been claimed on
someone infringing only a part of the patent.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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