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UCITA Committee Disbanded
linuxwrangler writes "As noted in Ed Foster's InfoWorld Gripe Line blog, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws committee on Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) has been disbanded. The UCITA proposal, a darling of the software industry, would have validated shrink-wrap and click-through licenses and legalized "self-help" or remote disabling of software by manufacturers. It's "developers are completely liable for defects...unless overridden by the shrink wrap license" provisions were of grave concern to open-source. The badly flawed proposed legislation was condemned by everyone from Librarians and InfoWorld editors to the American Bar Association, the Federal Trade Commission and Richard Stallman. Only two states (Virginia and Maryland) adopted it while twice that many passed Anti-UCITA laws. Although UCITA is not officially dead, at least it has been taken off life support which certainly qualifies as great news." -
UCITA Committee Disbanded
linuxwrangler writes "As noted in Ed Foster's InfoWorld Gripe Line blog, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws committee on Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) has been disbanded. The UCITA proposal, a darling of the software industry, would have validated shrink-wrap and click-through licenses and legalized "self-help" or remote disabling of software by manufacturers. It's "developers are completely liable for defects...unless overridden by the shrink wrap license" provisions were of grave concern to open-source. The badly flawed proposed legislation was condemned by everyone from Librarians and InfoWorld editors to the American Bar Association, the Federal Trade Commission and Richard Stallman. Only two states (Virginia and Maryland) adopted it while twice that many passed Anti-UCITA laws. Although UCITA is not officially dead, at least it has been taken off life support which certainly qualifies as great news."