[lug] Re: CLUE: More UCITA Opposition / contact your state reps

[bill ehlert]

**  and a good way to find out just who your
    state reps are and how to contact them is
    to visit

              http://www.vote-smart.org/





--- Jeffery Cann <jccann at home.com> wrote:

> Greetings.
> 
> Here are some more opinions on the UCITA - Uniform
> Computer Information
> Transactions Act
> 
> Although our beloved State of Colorado does not yet
> have pending
> legislation on the UCITA, now is the time to contact
> your State
> Representatives and suggest to them that
> introduction of the UCITA is a
> Bad Thing (tm).
> 
> For those who have not been following this
> legislation, it is imperative
> that you become educated.  This significantly
> affects everyone who uses
> computers -- whether you use Linux, or a commercial
> operating system at
> home or at work.
> 
> IEEE Opposes UCITA. The IEEE has published a
> "Position paper" opposing
> states' adoption of UCITA. It provides a nice,
> concise summary of the
> problems with this bill. Into the existing and
> evolving legal and
> business situation, UCITA would inject an ironclad
> statutory framework
> that is very easy to abuse to the serious detriment
> of consumers, large
> business users, and small business users of computer
> software, software
> developers, computer consultants and the general
> public.
> 
> http://www.ieeeusa.org/FORUM/POSITIONS/ucita.html
> 
> 
> The Dangers of UCITA
> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/23/951368340.html
> 
> Later
> Jeff
> 
> --
> "Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."
> 
> Mediatations Sacrae De Haeresibus
> Francis Bacon (1597)
 
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