Re: Y2K Lawsuit

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

But that comment does not necessarily mean that the code didn't already exist 
and
one of the developers at least noted it for future correction.  So the comment, 
in
and of itself, is not an indictment.

Don wrote:

> > HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to 
>buy a
> > release and never move forward...
>
> That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
> client...
>
> AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
> vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
> executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
> after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!
>
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