Electronic contract equals real contract by using transference and exchanges of electronic data in the suppositional exchange market-Internet.

电子合同是通过互联网这一虚拟交易市场利用电子数据的传递与交换订立的意思表示真实的契约。

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The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.

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