functional vs. expressive

Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Mon, 10 May 1999 13:22:22 -0400 (EDT)


Kragen Sitaker writes:
> The trouble with this is that the distinction between 'functional' and
> 'expressive' is illusory.

Eben Moglen (prof at the Columbia Law School, and counsel to the FSF)
has just put an essay about the poor fit between our current IP laws
and the structures they regulate at:

http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html

I'm not all the way through it, but it look sinteresting.

rst