Microsoft Volume I

3593.366 - 3620.578 Steve Ballmer

It gets translated to machine code. That machine code ends up running and it's basically electrons. It's voltages that are flipped up and down. And so what about that are we trying to protect? Ultimately, the way it gets litigated through some case law from court cases is that the source code is a copyrightable creative work that is expressed through some sort of tangible medium.