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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Look and feel problem?
Message-ID: <628@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 19:51:52 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.628
Posted: Tue Feb 17 19:51:52 1987
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References: <17300@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <242@mcdsun.UUCP> <341@unirot.UUCP> <2802@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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In article <2802@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU>, phr@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU (Paul Rubin) writes:
 > In article <341@unirot.UUCP> ron@unirot.UUCP (Ron Natalie) writes:
 > >AT&T decided to let everyone use the set-UID bit without bothering
 > >them back around 1981.  Mostly it is patented because there was a
 > >big drive to increase the number of patents that Bell Labs employees
 > >held for statistical reasons.
 > 
 > Sadly, this doesn't seem to be true.  RMS spoke with an AT&T lawyer a
 > few days ago, and the lawyer said AT&T never had any such policy.

Hmm, I seem to recall Al Arms (if that is his name, my memory is foggy)
announcing that they were going to let the setuid bit go.  It was right
after he congratulated people for the rather stunning defense of the
trademark.