Why you won't fly on 1/1/00

From: cswiger <cswiger_at_wilma.widomaker.com>
Date: Tue Jan 5 09:31:17 1999

>This is my biggest fear of Y2K. All of my programming life, software
>developers have been able to get away with shipping buggy software with
>virtually no liability. Now companies are already being sued for this

Gentelpersons - certainly have been enjoying the thoughts on y2k,
pretty much matches my thoughts. As for the above, just look at
the Microsoft y2k statements, which claim to be compliant,
immediately followed by the big screaming-caps legal boilerplate
saying "but if your business fails due to ANY bug in the SOFTWARE,
you can't sue me, nyah nyah-nyah nyah nyah, nyah". I think the right
to peddle buggy software must be protected by 1st amendment free
speech.

My elder brother works with credit card processing in San Jose'
and last August he wrote:

  " I have cards that expire now in 06/01 and 05/00 I believe.
  Anyway, I have not had any problem using them.

  I know for a fact that this is one of the issues that had to
  be dealt with last year. In fact, for a while there, we had
  to ignore expiration dates in the processing."



        Chuck
        cswiger_at_widomaker.com
Received on Tue Jan 05 1999 - 09:31:17 GMT