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Ed Foster's current column on Infoworld is a bit frightening:

        I recently told you about the Uniform Computer Information Transactions
Act (UCITA), the new name for UCC Article 2B. (See
       "Yikes! Don't look now, but Article 2B has transmuted to yet another
creature.") As decision day is rapidly approaching on UCITA, you're going be
hearing a lot
       more about it in these pages starting next week, and not just from me.
And I want to make sure you understand what's at stake.

       UCITA will make the rules clear for shrink-wrap and click-wrap software
licenses, and in essence it will say that what the vendors want goes. If they
don't want to
       warrant that their products are fit for any purpose, they don't have to.
If they want you to warrant that you will inform them whenever your telephone
number
       changes, they can do so. Live with it, or read all that fine print until
you find a vendor who offers better terms, if one even exists.