Microsoft tries to patent code they didn't even create (again)

Microsoft has filed for and received from the US Patent and Trademark office a patent for SUDO which Microsoft did not create and they do not own. the sudo command has been around for 29 years before Microsoft had the audacity to attempt to claim a patent on the concept.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390

They truly know no shame in Redmond.