Software licensing act amended (News.com) [LWN.net]

News.com looks into proposed amendments to UCITA. "The Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA), introduced three years ago, is meant to protect software developers from intellectual property theft by resolving conflicting software licensing laws that vary from state to state. But critics complained that the proposed laws favored corporate interests over consumers by granting software makers too much freedom in restricting the use of their software and dictating settlement terms for conflicts."

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Software licensing act amended (News.com)

Posted Aug 5, 2002 20:09 UTC (Mon) by rmdirms (guest, #2659) [Link]

Well, Well,

I have an anti-UCITA stance, and you can see it at my ftp address:

ftp://66.113.228.74/pub

bk appdx a5 20020529a my antiucita stance.sxw

is the name of the file. If you dont use StarOffice or OpenOffice, then look in the PDF folder and grab the file there

Basically, I vehemently disagree, for my self, any UCITA provisions that would compel me to ascribe to and or implement/keep up to date with DRM or other tools that would lead to corporate:

abuse of the Internet,

disruption of free-flow of NON-copyright information that they don't like to see dissimenated,

disruption of free-flow of copyrighted material which self-publishers/authors WISH to freely share though copyrighted, and

other unpredicted rights abuses

Regards,

David Syes

jabybi.com