Later I realized that you could already copyright code, which is to say, the law of the land has already recognized it as expression for a long time. (You can't copyright the workings of a machine, only pantent.) So I fear that, beyond sending a wake-up call to the lawyers and lawmakers that we have a problem, there's no real reason to believe that this alone will cause any reversal of software's unique position of being the only thing I know of that is currently restricted by both patents and copyrights. (Anybody who can come up with something else similarly restricted please let me know.)