Phoenix.pm: UCITA Article

Doug Miles doug.miles at bpxinternet.com
Mon Jun 26 14:12:45 CDT 2000


Scott Walters wrote:
> 
> Hmm.
> Reading this, it sounds like it will give software writters further room
> to hang themselves with, and allow them to become even more slothly. Most
> major companies favor regulations that make it harder to work in their
> industry, thus weeding out the weak and small. If, under the protection of
> this bill, Microsoft is allowed to become buggier, and more hostile twards
> consumers, free software can only benefit. Before I read the article, I
> assumed it might be something like Germany's software laws: that you ARE
> liable for what your software does, and you can't disclaim it  - more
> accountability, not less. This would damage free software, as they would
> be accountable for those rare bugs that did crop up, and they would be
> restricted from beta releases that allow the final testing to be done by
> the consumer. This sounds just like Bill's work, weither or not it is. I
> can only hope that like Steve Jobs, we all eventually wise up and realize
> we were betrayed.

I'm afraid that UCITA is the worst of both worlds.  It protects the big
guys, but screws the consumer and the small developer.  Read this:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ucita.html

-- 
- Doug

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the 
word you first thought of."
--Burt Bacharach



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