That judge only caught half of it, if the 1's and 0's don't pass any ideas then how does the hardware know what to do? After all, compiling to binary only converts one language to another. There is NOTHING in the 1st that allows one language to receive protection over another. It says 'speech', as in 'all speech'. The fact is that anybody who knows the hex codes of the CPU can read the compiled code and determine exactly what the 'ideas' in the source code were. On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote:

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