JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes: : Aren't there two answers to this? One legal and one ontological? : : Julie Krueger I don't think so. Legal questions involve the law, but the question that I am concerned with involves "facts." The question of what the law is is something that lawyers supposedly know something about, the question of what a computer program is---and other questions of fact---are not matters that lie within the special competency of lawyers. On the other hand, I don't think that I am raising an ontological question or, more precisely, I don't think that an answer in terms of ontology will help me. I think the question is more like: "How should lawyers and others who have never written a computer program think about computer programs?" So I think that the question is more about metaphors than being. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html