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Re: Code-As-Speech

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Fri May 7 16:39:20 1999

Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:30:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <873e18kh3l.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com>

I agree.  But the next (legally and commercially) exciting question is to
what extent this works for object code....

On 7 May 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> I hate to say this, because it sounds "convenient" and "weird", but I
> really believe that much source code *is* expression in the first
> amendment sense that the 9th circuit held.
> 

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