Re:Sick Software "Patents" (Score 3, Informative)

This isnt the first time. For over 6 years we have been developing an open source authorisation and access control system called PERMIS (see www.openpermis.org) which validates authorisation tokens, including X.509 attribute certificates and Shibboleth attribute assertions, and uses them to make access control decisions. We have many academic papers published about our work. Then in Sept 2006 Microsoft applied through Blair Dillaway for a new patent in the U.S. covering the use of multiple types of security tokens in a single access control act. If that isnt theft of previously published prior art of ours (and others in the academic community), then I dont know what is.