IP: Time to bury proposed software law (: [risks] Risks Digest 21.41

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>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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