How would ucita affect business?:

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In transactions relating to computer information, there are no standard "rules of the road" that describe how contracts may be formed, what warranties and what remedies automatically apply. The courts currently use general rules currently used in the sale of goods. UCITA would establish rules and give predictability to the resolution of issues related to computer information.

[mini_0]

There was one very good point which I got in the e business newsletter and it answered this question pretty well . More than 50% of the software purchased by businesses is standard "over-the-counter" software that is acquired with non-negotiated "shrink-wrap" or "click-on" licenses. UCITA validates all sorts of unreasonable terms in these non-negotiated licenses and makes them fully enforceable against the users. Businesses will be forced to spend substantially more money and time to review and deal with unconscionable license terms on EVERY piece of software. Moreover, small businesses rely almost exclusively on over-the-counter software and will have extraordinarily limited protections against bad software and bad software licenses under UCITA. Therefore, small businesses will bear a substantially larger risk than consumers or big businesses purchasing the same software.