Heads up on Bell patents

P21 on https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V01.1.pdf

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 Don't shout at your JBODs, they don't like it!
                -- Brendan Gregg, "Shouting in the Datacenter"
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+Bell has two patents on UNIX
+a) set-user-id bit
+b) on "typo" !
+               -- John Lions, Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter, Oct 1978