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It appears that the patent office has granted Microsoft a patent on sudo. For those that don’t know sudo is a piece of software that allows a user to execute a command with the rights and privileges of another user. It has been around for at least as long as I have been using computers and Microsoft was just granted a patent on it. WTF?

Check it out over at Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks.

What the hell is going on at the patent office?

UPDATE: Behold the patent

Tim Bray has written up a quick outline of his thoughts on Ruby. Suffice to say he is impressed (although I do agree with his criticisms).

Anything by Martin Fowler has long been a must read for me. He has been a big fan of Ruby. Now he asks if Ruby is ready for the enterprise.

Read it over at http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvaluatingRuby.html

He really nails the politics behind technology choices in enterprise business perfectly. Ruby is getting very interesting…

More fascinating lispism over at http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060118%2ehtml

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It seems that Microsoft is hiring someone to explore bringing Ruby, my new favorite language, to the .Net CLR

A mindblowingly good post from Bob Wyman How the read/write web was lost….

Highly recommended reading for all

Nice to see that Ruby on Rails is getting significant traction. Looks like the BBC is looking to leverage it on their latest skunkworks project. Check it out at: hackdiary: The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails)

Another classic piece from Spolsky. Make it required reading if you are in the technology industry: Joel on Software - Set Your Priorities