Written question asked by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Conservative), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 1 March 1991. It was answered by Edward Leigh (Conservative) on Friday, 1 March 1991 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Untitled Written question

Question: If he will make it his policy to seek amendment to the EC Software Directive to ensure that major vendors of computer software are not able to impose substantial charges on software users to allow them to alter or copy this software for legitimate maintenance purposes; & that providers of software programs do not become legally entitled to prohibit their customers from correcting errors in such software; what assessment DTI has made of implications of EC draft software directive upon reproduction, adaptation or alteration to update application programs to conform to new operating systems, correct virus problems, solve problems in a multi-vendor environment, adjust their systems to incorporate into a network & alter their software to incorporate new devices.

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