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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. UCITA? by blincoln · · Score: 5, Informative

    If, like me, you've never heard of UCITA and are looking to form your own opinion, a summary is available here:

    http://www.ucitaonline.com/slhpwiu.html

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  2. More info on the UCITA by MiTEG · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who (like me) have a limited knowledge about the UCITA, Infoworld as an excellent summary of what it is and the problems with it.

    What it essentially seems to do is make EULA's legally binding and allows them to be undisclosed until after the sale is made. It doesn't seem so much anti-open source as it pro-commercial software.

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