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It seems to me that the Y2K suit against Symantec was settled in favor of
no-charge fixes. I'll bet the Cruz brothers have been major supporters of
the lobbying efforts behind the limit the Y2K lawsuits legislation, which in
my opinion, is little more than an effort to void responsibility of the
software and hardware industry for what they have wrought. There might, just
might, be some merit in providing a pass on software released prior to
1/1/1990 when the PC software industry was for the most part a collection of
very small entrepreneurs and 1/1/2000 was a decade away. Certainly no pass
for software released during this decade!
Any bets on whether the promised Omega Y2K patches will be released if this
legislation passes? Aside from that, I'll repeat what I said well over a
year ago when Omega first promised v5 in spring of 1998 with Y2K patch to
follow: given Omega's track record in Quality Control, I certainly would not
want to bet my livelihood on the promised Omega Y2K patch not mucking up my
system!!!!! So all of you out there looking askance at the PS2000i problems
and figuring you'll just wait for the Y2K patch, you may just want to THINK!
AGAIN!
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: Robyn Greene <greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: Omega Record Revenues And 51% Increase In Income
>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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