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IP: Time to bury proposed software law (: [risks] Risks Digest 21.41
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:13:15 -0400
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:14:02 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Subject: Time to bury proposed software law (Dan Gillmor) UCITA, the ``Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act,'' is the technology industry's version of Dracula. It's designed to suck money from overmatched consumers, and it keeps emerging from the coffin. Just about every serious pro-consumer official and organization has denounced UCITA, a proposed uniform state law that would tilt the balance in software transactions strongly toward the seller. But UCITA's backers, mostly in the computer industry, are not giving up -- and they may be on the verge of getting help from key public officials who, acting in good faith, would harm the people they're sworn to protect. [Dan Gillmor, Time to bury proposed software law, *San Jose Mercury*, 13 May 2001 http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg051301.htm]
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