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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: super_user in fs
Message-ID: <120@geovision.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 19:25:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: geovisio.120
Posted: Wed Jul 29 19:25:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 01:39:47 EDT
References: <462@csm9a.UUCP> <613@uokmax.UUCP> <1142@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Organization: Geovision Corporation, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: Bell Labs patent on setuid bit is public domain

In article <1142@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> simsong@athena.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
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>I would like to point out that Bell Labs has a patent on the setuid bit.
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>................................................................simson

True enough, but that patent was released to the public domain.
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