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I am at a loss to understand why there is so much critism of Omega over the
Y2K problem. Every other Software writer in the world has been exploiting
this for the last 20 years or so. Thats why $millions will have to be spent
putting the problem right. There was a post on this list recently comparing
software to a motor car. The inference being that software would become
obsolete just like a car. I dare say there are people around who will
continue to use DOS programs just as there are those who run 10 year old
cars.
At least we know what will happen with the Omega product on 31st Dec 1999;
without a patch it will not read '00'. Just 22 months to get your money's
worth.<g>
The fact that a motor car depreciates rapidly hasn't stopped them being sold
in increasing numbers. If you like the product, buy it; if not, buy
something else.
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Funck <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 February 1998 15:37
Subject: Re: Y2K Blackmail?
>On Feb 18, 4:46am, Orphelin@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Yes...
>> Until Year 2000 if...
>> If Omega wants to stop SafeSoft piracy, they could be wise to release the
TS4
>> Y2000 patch with an extra protection to the users that do not want to
upgrade
>> to TS5.
>> Doing so, all the illegal TS4 and below copies will die at the end of the
>> century.
>
>Independent of the merits/demerits of dongles and Safekey's, I
>think there ought to be a law against a company that takes advantage
>of a Year 2000 bug, and uses it as a method for ensuring that its
>customers upgrade to the new Y2K-compliant version.
>
>Just curious, has anyone tried advancing the date (is this even
>possible with a realtime data feed?) past 2000, to see what TS4 and TS3
>do with that? For example, one could build an ASCII file of historical
>data for '97 and '98, and change '97 -> '99 and '98 -> '00 and see
>what happens. Mark, have you tried this?
>
>While we're on the subject, do the various historical and realtime
>datafeed providers have implicit Y2K compliant problems as well?
>
>
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>| Gary Funck, Intrepid Technology, gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx, (650) 964-8135
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