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Only recently sudo got copied by Microsoft for Windows 11:

https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/advanced-settings/sudo/

I guess they didn't pay a cent to Todd Miller.



https://github.com/microsoft/sudo?tab=readme-ov-file#relatio...

> This project is not a fork of the Unix/Linux sudo project, nor is it a port of that sudo project. Instead, Sudo for Windows is a Windows-specific implementation of the sudo concept.


They copied the name and the concept. The rest is probably AI-generated code.




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