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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: setuid bit patent
Message-ID: <364@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 11 Oct 90 19:17:33 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.043444.13850@agate.berkeley.edu> <10656@goofy.Apple.COM> <2371@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
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clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) writes:

>In article <10656@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>>There is another problem.  I understand one of those fellows, Ritchey I
>>think, has patented the setuid bit, so one would have to license the bit
>>to have any security systems work as under normal unix.  I don't know how
>>this would interact with the case mentioned above.

Patent rights on this were released into the public domain (don't
know the legal term) by DMR and AT&T some years ago.
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    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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