[Newspoetry] twist in the double helix

[Bryan Cribbs]

Oddly, I stumbled across this exact issue Friday due to an 
unrelated web search.
http://www.mit.edu/~ocschwar/C_English.html

Anyway, if you use linux it's irrelevant, in light of Judge Kaplan's 
assertation:
"code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed".

-Bryan

* Joe Futrelle <futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu> :
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/weekinreview/31FOUN.html
> 
> This article concerns translating DNA sequences into music so that they 
> could be copyright-protected.  Noted DNA-sequence-sonifier John Dunn is 
> quoted as being repulsed by this legally and aesthetically warped 
> strategy.  But to me it's ironically similar to civil libertarians' 
> strategy of setting DeCSS to music (and various other high-falutin forms of 
> expression) to establish its first-amendment status as speech (on display 
> in the DeCSS gallery @ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/).  Up 
> there on the bedfellows-strangeness scale.
> 
> 
> --
> Joe Futrelle
> person
> 
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