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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.160908.2054@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:09:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu> <veit.711728954@du9ds3> <150ckcINNc7p@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
- >Some time ago, in a UNIX manual (which one I unfortunately don't
- >remember), I read that the SETUID principle was actually covered by a
- >patent (inventor Ken Thompson, I think).
-
- As long as were remembering things, I remember it being Dennis Ritchie.
- The patent has been released by AT&T (i.e. they won't enforce it)
- because otherwise POSIX (and Unix look-alikes) would have been
- impossible.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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