PC Week: Fight UCITA: It grants far too much power to vendors | Linux Today

PC Week: Fight UCITA: It grants far too much power to vendors

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 7, 2000

UCITA stacks the deck against end users and businesses in
favor of large software vendors, and thus it protects those who
have the most money and influence-and so the least need of
protection.

“By making software shrink-wrap licenses legally enforceable and
by providing software vendors with a large set of other rights,
UCITA threatens to take away essential fair use, fair comment,
transferability, warrantee, redress, choice of legal venue and
reverse engineering rights we now have….”

“UCITA also makes software vendors less liable for failures in
their products and limits damages software consumers can claim
against the vendors in cases of failure.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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