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Red Hat Asks for UCITA Reversal

Posted by michael on from the fat-chance dept.

OSS advocate writes "According to this NewsForge article, Red Hat has engaged the services of Carol Kunze (ucitaonline.com) to try to convince the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to take UCITA back. There's a list of email addresses in case you want to send the commish a letter yourself." Red Hat's letter is a good start.

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  1. Someone at RedHat isn't thinking by drew_kime · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    UCITA is written for transactions ... where there are profits to support warranties. [Emphasis added] Many open source software transactions do not conform to this model in any respect.

    ...

    UCITA attempts to force open source to conform to a model based on profits and warranties.

    This would destroy open source
    I think I just read the next Microsoft press release.
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    Nope, no sig