[Ecommerce] Joseph Menn on UCITA

James Love love@cptech.org
Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:45:53 -0500


http://www.latimes.com/business/20001120/t000111452.html

Support for Software Law Eroding 
Technology: Makers campaigned to limit buyers' rights.
Now they're forced to water down the proposal. 

By JOSEPH MENN, Times Staff Writer


After more than a year of conflict, a campaign by America
Online, Microsoft and other powerful software companies to pass
legislation dramatically limiting the rights of software buyers appears
to have stalled in the face of growing opposition. 

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