Legal and Ethical Issue in CBSE

The goals of this lesson is to gain an appreciation of the difficulties involved in considering the legal and ethical implementations of using component- based system. In this topic , i shows 2 example : The complaint made by Netscape communications corporation to Microsoft corporation. Personally, i feel that though Netscape has play a great part in bringing communication to the peoples , they did not meets the customers requirements which Microsoft has all along did. The birth of Microsoft is the death of Netscape. In the market , we can see similar product on the shelves but branding is stated differently. Same case apply to Netscape and Microsoft. If so , both this company may make a complaint and points towards Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft has posed a great threat to Netscape monopoly power as well as economic. Sony also posted the same way that they faced. Hence , patents, trademark and copyrights are important issue to the society . With appropriate usage , company can protect their rights from hurting themselves as well as the customer. It is reasonable to assume that manufacturers of software product should ensure the reliability of their products. As manufacturer enable to predict the purpose for which software will be used , where it will be installed , how it will be installed . Therefore , it impossible for the manufacturers to warrant software for fitness for use.

During the lesson , Mr Mok had brought up the UCITA - Uniform Computer Information Transaction. It is a proposed state contract law developed to regulate transactions in computer information products such as computer software, online databases . software access contracts or e-book. UCITA is destined for consideration by all fifty state legislatures. UCITA has become one of the more controversial uniform commercial laws . Since 2000 libraries have joined with a diverse coalition of patterns including retail and manufacturing concerns , consumer advocates , insurances and financial institutions and other non profits in mounting strong opposition whenever UCITA had been considered. UCITA was banned by the consumer due to poorly drafted , biased in favor of the software industry , increases the cost of doing business for organizations that make significant use of software and other technologies , UCITA also upsets the copyright law's careful balance between the interest of the public in the free flow of information and the protection of the rights of creators of software programs and other computer information.