Yes, that was what I remember. I think having bin own the binaries was a kind of security check for suids. Avoids having a suid on a root owned binary. Plus

Yes, that was what I remember. I think having bin own the binaries was a kind of security check for suids. Avoids having a suid on a root owned binary. Plus you could use bin to install programs instead of root. Restricting who has root access. But I suppose it did not work out as people were hoping and only added to admin costs. Still, I was a bit annoyed when I noticed everything was owned by root as opposed to bin when I first installed Slackware decades ago. But I got over it :)