The full text can be found at:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2453005,00.html

Excerpts follow:


"Fight UCITA: It grants far too much power to vendors

"UCITA stacks the deck against end users and businesses in favor of large
software vendors, and thus it protects those who have the most money and
influence and so the least need of protection.

"By making software shrink-wrap licenses legally enforceable and by
providing software vendors with a large set of other rights, UCITA
threatens to take away essential fair use, fair comment, transferability,
warrantee, redress, choice of legal venue and reverse engineering rights
we now have.

"...use of the software will turn whatever the software manufacturer chose
to put on its license agreement into a legally binding agreement.

"This is simply far too much power to grant software vendors. A standard
clause in many shrink-wrapped agreements is a "no publication of benchmark
results without prior vendor approval" clause.

"UCITA also makes software vendors less liable for failures in their
products and limits damages software consumers can claim against the
vendors in cases of failure.

"Fight UCITA. What's good for software vendors is not necessarily good for
consumers."