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I think there are at least a handful of Y2K suits (one that comes to mind is a
suit Milberg, Weiss filed against Symantec because Symantec wanted to charge
users something like $20 to upgrade to a Y2K-compliant product). Robyn
Earl Adamy wrote:
> I'm no expert on class action suits, however it's my impression that Ford
> and GM don't payoff unless they can be nailed with a solid combination of
> negligence and death. Other big area is stockholder suits, another area
> where damages are rather easily determined and the class is large - Omega
> has or had one of those pending. Don't think lawyers are particularly
> interested in such actions unless the pockets are deep and the demonstrable
> damages are clear and easy to understand. The gross inconvenience of 10000
> users each losing a couple of hours to a bug is quite large but nothing
> which is going to send signals to the sharks. Ditto for 10 bugs. Which is
> probably why there has been so little bug-related litigation in the software
> industry as a whole.
>
> Earl
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