If we're going to explain to people why this legislature is a bad idea, we
need more than that though - We need a detailed explanation of how it will
affect individual consumers, the corporate consumer, and even the
state/federal gov't (as a consumer). 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Warner [mailto:wwarner@direct-alliance.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:34 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Fwd: UCITA has landed in AZ.
> 
> 
> Other than just the general badness of giving more
> power to the software developer, how does the UCITA
> affect linux?  It seems to me that this can do nothing
> but make commercial software less appealing and open
> source more so?????
> 
> Could you add something about this to your faq.  I am
> not big on legal issues, but if you would explain how
> this might affect say my Debian installs.  I haven't 
> bought software in many years.
> 
> Question to add to faq:
> 
> How does UCITA affect open source software?
> 
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> Bill Warner
> Direct Alliance Corp.
> Unix/Linux Admin.
> 
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