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The legal types love this stuff, the more laws the more lawyers to drag stuff
though the Courts for years. I honestly believe that with lawyers as lawmakers
we will just have more laws for the lawyers to litigate. I think the lawyers
want control of the tech industries, seems this is how they'll do it. They want
their part of the pie that they are currently not getting from the geeks writing
software and getting rich. They see all the money that the geeks at MSFT are
making and they don't have the liability litigation that they do in other
industries, no one has been killed by crashing Windows.
Besides now there is a new branch of law to specialize in.
We'll have Shrink Wrap Lawyers, Shrink Courts, and they'll all specialize in
Shrunk Law.
Maybe Shrink Wrap Lawyers will be called Shrunks, to distinguish them from the
current Shrinks. The possibilities are endless.
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Subject: Re: new laws proposed for shrink wrap software
Author: Robyn Greene
Date: 4/19/99 6:27 PM
I suppose the good news is that courts in least some states (like Florida)
have never understood the UCC <g>. Also - I suspect there are many states
where some of these provisions would conflict with other laws. Sounds like a
lot of new work for lawyers. Robyn
"J. Rodney Grisham" wrote:
> You may want to review information on proposals for licensing shrink
> wrap software. From today's
>
> Network Computing Newsletter #89
> http://www.networkcomputing.com/
> Monday, April 19, 1999
>
> Feature: UCC 2B: The New Law of Shrink-Wrap
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Beware of UCC 2B! The new law of shrink-wrap threatens to change
> the way large and small enterprises purchase and use software.
> Read how at:
> http://www.networkcomputing.com/1008/1008f1.html
>
> UCC == Universal Commercial Code
>
> I don't think you will believe this could be a real proposal if you
> read the articles at the referenced URL. It boggles the mind, mine
> at least. If this passes, the omega-list and all others like it will
> disappear because no one will be able to criticize software if the shrink
> wrap license prohibits it - yep, free speech contracted right out the
> window without your signature. Moreover, you won't necessarily be able
> to read the license before you purchase a product if I read the articles
> correctly (I was reading fast). This is an amazing proposal. I leave
> it to your imagination how it may effect Omega products.
>
> Rod
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