Editing Sudo (section)

==History==
Robert Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer wrote the original subsystem around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|SUNY/Buffalo]].<ref name="grati9"/> Robert Coggeshall brought sudo with him to the [[University of Colorado Boulder]]. Between 1986 and 1993, the code and features were substantially modified by the IT staff of the [[University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science Department]] and the College of Engineering and Applied Science, including Todd C. Miller.<ref name="grati9" /> The current version has been publicly maintained by [[OpenBSD]] developer Todd C. Miller since 1994,<ref name="grati9"/> and has been distributed under an [[ISC license|ISC-style]] license since 1999.<ref name="grati9"/>

In November 2009 Thomas Claburn, in response to concerns that [[Microsoft]] had patented sudo,<ref name="maxi10"/> characterized such suspicions as overblown.<ref name="dark11"/> The [[claim (patent)|claims]] were narrowly framed to a particular [[GUI]], rather than to the sudo concept.<ref name="spi091112"/>

The logo is a reference to an [[xkcd]] strip, where an order for a sandwich is accepted when preceded with {{code|sudo}}.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://xkcd.com/149/ | title=Sandwich | access-date=2022-04-11 | archive-date=2022-04-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409063050/https://xkcd.com/149/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/ | title=Sudo Logo | access-date=2022-04-11 | archive-date=2022-04-27 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427150715/https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/ | url-status=live }}</ref>