The Great Software Fraud, Table of Contents -- a stunning book that exposes calculated deception in Software license agreements, sales, claims, marketing and patents.

The Great Software Fraud Table of Contents -- A powerful, hard hitting, urgent book exposing how software is fraudulently marketed, to deceive people and deprive us of normal consumer rights in software sales. Shows how software works and is developed, explains why software patents are invalid, covers copyrights, exposes UCITA as a total scam to extort the public's rights and money; lays out new fairer legislation. Current UCITA will be the model for all future digital commerce -- at the consumer's expense. Provides ways to give meaningful feedback to key Government agencies that count.

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	TABLE OF CONTENTS "THE GREAT SOFTWARE FRAUD"
	PREFACE INTRODUCTION Discusses whether software strategy is choice or collusion; Who has which rights; is software a sale or a license; and it explains how this book's strategy really works. CHAPTER 1 -- Exactly What is Software Explains software using very clear analogies to our languages: Analogies to our alphabet, numbers, spacing, words, sentences, etc. Shows how computer languages are spaced and grouped. Gives a very clear picture of the building blocks of software. Shows how software gets into and travels through a computer. CHAPTER 2 -- Exactly What Does Software Do? Summarizes progress, explains computer "instructions" simply; discusses different "Programming Levels" and dependencies; Shows how they use different "alphabets" and how software by nature has a multiplicity of different authors. CHAPTER 3 -- How Does Software Do Tasks? Shows how software tries to make decisions but fails to heal itself; Uses examples of screen writing, explains "Firmware" vs. software; As example, explains complex concepts simply by showing how software can use different "BIOS", "DOS" and other methods to write to screen. Shows how Windows changed this, required "high-level " programming, and was the start of the loss of originality and creativity in software. CHAPTER 4 -- When is Software Original? Gives a scant history of software prior to the IBM PC; Shows how hardware and software platforms solidified and evolved; Explains why software originality cannot be duplicated; Shows that trivial variations do not define "Originality"; Shows that similar "Interfaces" doesn't mean copying; As an example, uses the Lotus 123 Suit to illustrate; Shows what is involved in doing it again "from scratch". CHAPTER 5 -- How Do Big Companies Develop Software? Contrasts how individual programmers go it alone and are punished; Shows how big companies "reverse engineering" software; Clearly contrasts the motives and intents of these two developers; Shows how software companies "dupe" people and each other, and how the software industry is ruthlessly predatory. Uses the Microsoft example of how they "took" many crucial components from other developers to refine and perfect DOS; Shows the same strategy when evolving DOS into Windows; Exposes Microsoft tactics as typical of "standard industry practice". Shows how the real cause of predatory software goes unnoticed; Concludes with an analysis that packaging beats innovation. CHAPTER 6 -- Is Software Copyrightable? Asks at what level is software original -- crucial to copyright. Compares the lowest level code with the operating system; Compares the operating platform and application levels; Shows how software is built by amalgamating other works; Proves copyrightability by analogy to books and authors; Limited ways to convey meaning; originality comes with scope; Analyzes if copyright is appropriate to software and at what scope; Enumerates key qualities of successful software. CHAPTER 7 -- Is Software Patentable? Briefly shows origin of Patents and how it differs from copyright; Focuses next on firmware and its patentability; Contrasts original patent intent with a process patent; Shows a process is more than a procedure, and shows how almost all software follows procedures, not processes; Uses examples of disks, printers, screen writing, etc. to prove. Draws stunning, landmark conclusions about software patents! CHAPTER 8 -- The Deception Begins With Patents Explains what constitutes "new technology" and if it exists in software; Show the Patent Office dilemma of believing anything they are told; Shows how software companies fabricate claims just to get patents; Reveals a U.S. Patent Office under pressure, in a mess, and far too ignorant of what software is and does to make any definitive rulings. Explains the legal ramifications of their decisions, and how they are detrimentally misconstruing software terminology and functions. Alerts people that is is time to wake up to this patent deception. Contrasts valid vs. invalid software patents, showing what is patentable and what is not -- as well as giving detailed reasons. Warns to beware of false claims and whether patents are credible. CHAPTERS 7-8 ARE A LANDMARK TREATISE ON PATENTS!!! CHAPTER 9 -- The "License Agreement" Fraud Asks why is the consumer even implicated in license agreements; Shows how software company claims were modest before patents, but constitute fraud and invigorated fraud after patent "protection". Shows how you give up all rights in a "Software License Agreement". Analyzes a normal retail sale and the consumer's rights in such sales; Explains the differences in licences to "do", to "use" and to "lease"; Explains a normal "license agreement"; asks why software needs them. Concludes with: How can software be both a sale and a license? CHAPTER 10 -- Dissecting Software License Agreements Warns to beware of snarling agreements by using Microsoft example; Valid copyright claims, versus number of copies allowed, is a farce. Shows how all stated user "rights" are actually prohibitions; Shows how the software company avoids agreeing to do anything; Proves that there is no legal agreement in a software "license agreements"; Reveals a "technology extortion", and how power increases with time. CHAPTER 11 -- The Internet Changes Software Selling Shows how claims of software "piracy" are a big farce; How prohibiting multiple copying is just another fraud; Exposes the dilemma of useless software and the value of sharing; Questions software theft and exposes exorbitant costs; Shows how software support is a fiasco, explains the impossibility of supporting Windows, and why we need a new operating system. As everything moves to the Internet, the old sales model crumbles. A distrust of software companies will eventually give rise to a new software selling model, based on the Internet and "free" software. CHAPTER 12 -- Frightening New Software Legislation Exposes the new UCITA software legislation's corrupt beginnings; Explains how via subterfuge and coercion in high places, UCITA flies in the face of everyone and goes against all commonsense. Shows the damage set in motion, and its serious legal ramifications; Grapples with the status of lapsed software, to expose UCITA fraud. Shows how software companies are corrupt with power, and want dictatorial control to dominate you and to take power away from judges; They want to be completely free to conduct legal extortion (blackmail) and enforce one-sided "agreements" on us all, to drain our bank accounts. Their big monopolistic power, of stunningly broad scope, is a total violation of consumer rights -- they can offer the world, then renege. UCITA is just a taste of what power all digital providers will soon have. CHAPTER 13 -- Limiting Unruly Software Companies This chapter shows what must change in all future software laws. It shows what must go in current law, and what needs clarification; It resolves copyright issues, and the revelations to follow from it. Users have a right to privacy and their rights must be unviolated. It covers cracking , hacking and enforces honest advertising. It covers liability issues, conditions of sale, and "free" software. CHAPTER 14 -- Toward An Equitable Software Law This amazing Guide to Software Liabilities and Limitations is the most in-depth framework for a new original legislation we have ever seen!! It covers: Scope, Copyright, Copyright Remedy, Patent Notices, Intellectual Property, Altering of Information, Sale of Goods, Retail Sale With and Without a Try Out, Presentation of a Retail Sale, Sale vs. License Agreement, No "Agreement" in Retail Products, Truth in Selling, Consumer Privacy Issues, How to Stop Privacy Violations and Abuse at the Source, and Stop Spread of Abuse, Liability Remedies, Ethics, Liabilities, Limiting Liability, as well as Remedies that Consumers have -- finally with a powerful summary. EVERY LEGAL PERSON IN AMERICA NEEDS TO READ IT! CHAPTER 15 -- Summary The book summarizes the immense ground it has covered as follows: Fundamentals, Mechanics, Programming Levels, Non-Uniqueness of Software, Defining Software Originality, The "Technology" Myth, Inherent Software Copyright, Limits on Patent Protection, The Unpatentability of Software, How Deception Succeeds, The "License Agreement" Fraud, Rights in a Sale, Fraudulent Claims in "License Agreements", and Improving Software Value. It concludes with a summary: The Biggest Hurdle is Honesty. CONCLUSIONS Now begins the real motivating power behind this book: It asks if people should act, or if the government should intervene; It tackles the "Innovation" issue and the "Great Wall" of Software; It gives clear strategies to overcome The Great Software Fraud; Can we move the government or tell them what to do? Federal vs. State Responsibilities shows the scope of the problem; Key Ingredient is public input; Crux is the "License Agreement"; Gives a strategy that will work, and how you can make a difference. Shows the result of many people's refusals -- how volume counts. Impressively contrasts the parts that the Federal Government should play, versus States, Groups and Organizations , and Individuals. It asks: Who can productively do what, and who will listen? It lists the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Representatives Your Own State reps, and warns of the consequences of not acting. ACTION FORMS Finally the book gives action forms for you to simply copy and send in, showing how, in 4 easy steps, you've done your part to guide legislators. It gives forms for the FTC, US Senators, the House, and State Governors. Useful tables list Senators names and Governors addresses to mail to. ADDENDUM FOR SPECIAL GROUPS Talks heart to heart with: Webmasters everywhere, to International Readers everywhere, hackers and crackers, and lastly to the Senate and House Reps. of The U.S. Congress. WE FOUND THIS BOOK STUNNING IN SCOPE AND IN THE POWER OF ITS COMPELLING CONCLUSIONS!


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