The Caterpillar company opposes UCITA, as all consumers of software of any variety should.

The full text is available at: http://www.4cite.org/pdf/caterpillar_statement.pdf

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Caterpillar opposes enactment of UCITA.

...UCITA was originally being proposed as a new article to the UCC and was formerly referred to as UCC Article 2B (UCC 2B). The effort to pass this uniform computer law act as a new article to the UCC failed however because of a controversy raised over the proposed act's unbalance and lack of fairness to software users...

...the drafting committee meetings was dominated in large part by mass-market software publishers (i.e., Microsoft) that showed no interest in substantive balance of the act for users...

Some of the problems are as follows:

• Software publishers can shut down user software remotely without court approval ...
  
• Unlimited disclaimers of warranty will absolve publishers from damages for defective software even when the publisher concealed defects that might harm the business ...
  
• Software acquired by employees without authorization will end up binding a corporation
  
• Click through terms in the software will overwrite those of a fully negotiated contract between the software publisher and the corporation and
  
• Allows publishers to write their own intellectual property law and circumvent well established intellectual property principles and statutes