Re: Software Warning?

["Zachary Florian" <icthusianz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for sharing... i followed a few of your links... it appears that this
is legit, but not likely to ever happen... this is what www.badsoftware.com
had to say:

UCITA is primarily supported by software publishers, some computer
manufacturers, and some banks.

UCITA has been opposed by:

     Software developers
     Every consumer advocacy organization that has looked at it
     Large software customers
     Librarians
     Other independent information content developers (writers,
photographers)
     Entertainment industry
     Magazine and newspaper publishers
     Many lawyers and law professors

.UCITA has been sharply criticized by the United States' Federal Trade
Commission.

i dunno if anyone else thought it was funny, but Librarians? i guess i
understand that they deal with a lot of digital content now, accessing other
libraries online and all that... just caught me off guard... :)

>
> LINUX/ OPEN SOURCE
> 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 with
> disaster.
> http://linuxtoday.com/stories/15948.html
>
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