IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 
comprising 240,000 members..

For the full text, see: http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/POSITIONS/ucita.html

Excerpts:

"We urge the state legislatures to reject UCITA.

"...Our concerns are in the following areas:

1...UCITA permits software publishers to enforce contract provisions that
may be onerous, burdensome or unreasonable,...(including) prohibitions
against public criticism of the software ..prohibits the reviews,
comparisons, and benchmark testing that are critical for an informed,
competitive marketplace...


2.UCITA would undermine the protections provided by Federal intellectual
property law and upset the carefully achieved balance between owners and
purchasers of intellectual property. For example, one major protection is
that "fair use" case law and statutory copyright law permit "reverse
engineering" for certain important purposes, such as development of
compatible (interoperable) software products and information security
testing...

3.UCITA allows software publishers to disclaim warranties and
consequential damages even for software defects known to the publisher
prior to sale, undisclosed to the buyer, and having damages that can be
reasonably foreseen...

4.By legalizing the choices of law and forum often included in software
agreements, especially shrink-wrap and click-through, UCITA would allow
software publishers to make expensive and burdensome any efforts by
purchasers to protect their rights... "