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Linux Today: Infoworld Circulating Petition to Halt UCITA
- To: Marit Köhntopp <marit@koehntopp.de>, debate@fitug.de
- Subject: Linux Today: Infoworld Circulating Petition to Halt UCITA
- From: Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:58:00 +0200
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- Organization: NetUSE GmbH
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http://linuxtoday.com/stories/7021.html
Infoworld Circulating Petition to Halt
UCITA
Jun 23rd, 03:26:29
Thanks to Matt Benjamin for this report.
From June 21 InfoWorld:
InfoWorld is sponsoring a petition to defeat UCITA, the reincarnated form of the recent
attempt by Microsoft and other software companies to reform the US Uniform Commercial
Code.
UCITA would:
Exempt software producers from consumer protection and product liability laws.
Ratify the most extreme forms of shrink-wrapped licensing--where the user is held to
terms only disclosed when software was installed
Outlaw reverse engineering
US citizens can sign the petition by sending their name and state of residence in an email to
ucita@infoworld.com
More information at http://archive.infoworld.com/UCITA.
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Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH
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