[sjwright]

Yes, it is an argument. It is not evidence, it may not be compelling argument for you, but it’s unquestionably an argument.

I refuse to accept that courts deemed compiled code to not be a creative work or intellectual property. Remember—a lot of early computer code was written in assembler...

[labawi]

So you refuse to accept the fact, for which there is evidence[1], that in given time and place, courts ruled object code not to be copyrightable, and furthermore it was not a solitary ruling and it was consistent with the rules of law at the time, so you call the ruling spectacularly ridiculous.

You may call it an argument. I may then argue by refusing to accept it.

[1] please view pdf linked above