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More on UCITA (Software Plan a Travesty for Consumers)

From: russell_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 9 Aug 1999 19:01:40 -0400


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 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://russell.flora.org/work/>
 Is the inheritance you are leaving your children in the form of debt?
 http://www.flora.org/flora.action-forum/709  
 Lets live up to our responsibilities.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:57:37 -0300
From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA>
Reply-To: Universal Access Canada / Canadian Coalition for Public             
    Information <CPI-UA@CCEN.UCCB.NS.CA>
Subject: [CPI-UA] FW: Software Plan a Travesty for Consumers (fwd)

From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor@sjmercury.com>
To: "'Dave Farber '" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg080199.htm

  THE Information Age was supposed to be all about empowering individuals,
and in some small ways it has happened. But big business and big
government are moving swiftly to ensure that power -- real power -- will
never fall into the hands of regular folks. >

  The powers-that-be are pushing all kinds of intrusions on your rights as
a consumer and citizen. In the past several weeks, we've lost consider
able ground.

  Two months ago I warned about the so-called Uniform Computer Information
Transactions Act, or UCITA. On Thursday, the National Conference of
Commissioners for Uniform State Laws endorsed UCITA, one of the most
grossly anti-consumer proposals of recent times.



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