From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH) Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth.... Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:49:21 GMT
As quoted from <150ckcINNc7p@iraul1.ira.uka.de> by S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz):
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| In <veit.711728954@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
| > process management (e.g. init, fork, setuid!)
| ~~~~~~
|
| 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).
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And AT&T publicly stated that this dated from a time when there was pressure
on Bell Labs employees to patent things, and that they were not pursuing
violations of the patent.
Of course, with the current litigation-happy folks over there, they may well
have decided to change their minds on that. The bastards.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery, KF8NH [44.70.4.88]: allbery@NCoast.ORG, bsa@telotech.com Senior Programmer, Telotech, Inc. (if I may call myself that...)