December 29, 1999 12:24 PM

"The irony of the 'It's a Wonderful Life' story is that the whole reason people see it and the reason it has become seen as an uplifiting classic message during Christmas time, during the most corporate-saturated, most eyeball-intensive time of the year, the whole reason it's worked its way into the structure of American Christmas is because of a corporate mistake," says Eben Moglen, professor of law history at Columbia University and general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.

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