:SF Gate: Software Licentiousness; UCITA gives new meaning to 'All Rights Reserved'
SF Gate: Software Licentiousness; UCITA gives new meaning to 'All Rights Reserved' Mar 29, 2000, 17 :19 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4946 reads) (Other stories by Neil McAllister)
"There's a quiet war now being fought, the outcome
of which might potentially affect every computer
user in the United States."
"Outside the software industry, academic circles, or
the few online information sources that have
followed the course of the conflict, few are yet
aware of the issues at stake. But it's a battle the
cannon-fire of which is soon to be heard in your
state legislature, and you're going to want the right
side to win."
"Of course, if understanding the law were simple,
then it might not be so troubling. But clocking in as it
does at some 84 pages, the bill is so complicated
that many of the very state legislators now asked to
vote on it don't really understand what it means. They just listen to the lobbyists who support the law
-- people who don't exactly have your best interests
in mind."
