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Bad Software: A Consumer Protection Guide. Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) UCITA main document. See also recent amendments to UCITA. See also NCCUSL's comments on UCITA. UCITA is a proposed law that will govern all contracts for the development, sale, licensing, support and maintenance of computer software and for many other contracts involving information. It also extends ...

Data 101 You use data everyday. Whether you check the sports scores, watch stock quotes, compare prices, surf the Internet, or even select the best restuarant from a travel guide, all of these little pieces of information are part of databases. Congress is considering legislation right now that could dramatically alter how you use everyday data. Data 101 is an easy to understand fact sheet ...

Why We Must Fight UCITA Table of Contents Why We Must Fight UCITA Links to other articles Why We Must Fight UCITA UCITA is a proposed law, designed by the proprietary software developers, who are now asking all 50 states of the US to adopt it. If UCITA is adopted, it will threaten the free software community (1) with disaster. To understand why, please read on. We generally believe that big ...

Back | Word Version | ASCII Version | PDF Version UNIFORM COMPUTER INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS ACT Drafted by the NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS and by it APPROVED AND RECOMMENDED FOR ENACTMENT IN ALL THE STATES at its ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEETING IN ITS ONE-HUNDRED-AND-EIGHTH YEAR IN DENVER, COLORADO JULY 23-30, 1999 WITHOUT PREFATORY NOTE AND COMMENTS Copyright 1999 By ...

UCITA is a plot by rich and lazy software manufacturers to kidnap user data and hold it hostage. It will simply kill the Americn Software industry.