Re: OSS and Free Speech
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> code is "like a telephony circuit" and hence not protected free speech.
> This is wrong, source code is only speech in that it requires hardware
> which might be of a wide variety of circuit types to turn the source
> expression into concrete action.
Source code is a set of instructions. It is more like an electronic
circuit or machine than it is speech. To try to make it out to be
constitutionally protected speech is REALLY a stretch. It is goofy stuff
like this that stands to hurt more than help the cause of free software.
George Bonser
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